Making Babies
Last year 143 million babies were born worldwide. For something so commonplace, the act of making babies is indeed a miracle, but... Read More
Fracking Our Way to Freedom?
Domestic U.S. oil production peaked in about 1970, fulfilling an outlandish prediction made back in 1956 at a meeting of the American... Read More
Population Pessimists vs. Population Pollyannas
The multi-talented Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor, scholar, statistician and public speaker, as well as a…[roll of the drums]… sword... Read More
Tragically, CAPS Co-Founder’s Essay Proves Prescient – ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ 45 Years Later
Garrett Hardin (1915-2003) was a long-time professor of human ecology at UC-Santa Barbara. He was the author of numerous hard-hitting books and... Read More
Young, Hip, Leftie Journalists & Enviros Are Often Clueless About Immigration-Overpopulation-Environment Connection
In my two decades in the trenches, as a somewhat reluctant warrior in our country’s seemingly endless and intractable skirmishes over the... Read More
Conservation is More Complicated Than it Used to be
Thanks to a friend of mine in New Mexico – veteran Western river-runner, naturalist, teacher and author Verne Huser – I recently... Read More
CAPS Radio Ads Target Turncoat Rep. Denham for Selling Out on Amnesty
CAPS is running radio ads right now in Modesto criticizing California Republican Congressman Jeff Denham. Denham has become the first House Republican... Read More
Avoiding Overpopulation by Escaping to the Stars? Don’t Bet your Life – or the Earth – on it
A widely reported study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that there could be as many as 40 billion... Read More
Discovering Exoplanets While Destroying the Home Planet
I recall a poster in a science classroom depicting a radiant blue, white and brown orb afloat in the darkness of space:... Read More
‘Superbugs’ versus Modern Medicine: Unvanquished, Ancient Scourges of Humanity Return with a Vengeance
The historic discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming revolutionized modern medicine. This first of the antibiotics allowed doctors... Read More