Number of Americans Increasing – Bird Abundance, Diversity Decreasing …these opposite trends are no coincidence
PDF Download: caps_issues_birds_decreasing_2014.pdf On September 9, 2014, the U.S. Committee of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative—a 23-member partnership of government agencies... Read More
Playing With Fire: More People, More Houses and Drier Climate = More Megafires
PDF Download: issues_fire_oct_2014_final.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow October 2014 “The new normal” is a term we hear all too... Read More
The Population and Immigration Ponzi Scheme
PDF Download: ponzi_pweb_b_may_2014.pdf Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi (1882-1949) was an Italian immigrant to America better known as Charles Ponzi. Of... Read More
OverPOPulation in POP Culture
PDF Download: overpopulation_sept_2013.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow September 2013 Our celebrity-saturated pop culture has long been mesmerized by romance... Read More
EXPLODING SOUTHWEST POPULATION ON COLLISION COURSE WITH WATER SCARCITY
PDF Download: kolankiewicz_population_on_collision_course.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow In his classic 1986 book, Cadillac Desert, the late author... Read More
Population Growth: The ‘Not’ in Not Sustainable
PDF Download: graham_population_growth.pdf The end of the Cold War freed up more worry time for people inclined to ponder how both the... Read More
Too Hot To Touch? Global Warming, Population and Denial
PDF Download: caps_issues_toohot_2012d.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow Most Americans sense that climate change is happening. They cannot help but... Read More
Islands Invaded, Natives Nuked
PDF Download: islands_invaded_natives_nuked.pdf In the 1830s, the unique fauna of the isolated and remote Galápagos Islands inspired the imagination of a... Read More
Overpopulation Overwhelms Salmon
PDF Download: caps_issues_salmon_1.pdf Zoologists refer to a select few species of wild creatures as “charismatic.” That is, they possess one or more... Read More
Analysis of 2010 Census Misses the Mark
PDF Download: analysis_of_2010_census_misses_mark_caps_issues_2011.pdf According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from 1990 to 2000, an already bloated U.S. population grew by nearly 33... Read More