Switzerland Will Vote on Overpopulation
The link between high population growth and stress on the environment should be obvious for anyone to see. Unfortunately, a lot of... Read More
Nobody Ever Migrates Because of Overpopulation
Sewage drains from a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a fast-growing megacity. Source: GlobalPost In his classic and provocative 1971 essay in the... Read More
Traffic Gridlock, Endless Population Growth
From my own experiences in traffic in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Houston, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Beijing, Shanghai,... Read More
Americans of the ‘20s Chose Wisely . . . Can We?
In 1920, many Americans were convinced that the mass immigration of previous decades had to halt. That year, the foreign-born population reached... Read More
The Left: Demanding Only Silence on Overpopulation
I was recently, after a few emails back and forth, shrilly called “a real piece of work” by an employee of a... Read More
Dark Skies Disappearing
Light pollution and population After my first visit as a 10-year old kid to see dinosaur fossils at the Carnegie-Mellon Museum in... Read More
Family Planning Can Help Stabilize Global Numbers
Evidence mounts that world population will not stabilize, as some forecasters thought it would, by 2050. The UN recently released a study... Read More
Ebola and Overpopulation
American medical history was made on Tuesday, September 30, when it was announced that the first case of Ebola has now been... Read More
Oil Created a 100-Year Window that’s Closing
The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime. I hazard... Read More
New Projections Blow Past Previous Estimates of World Population Stabilization in This Century
As a writer working to educate about human overpopulation, it’s easy to get discouraged. Why? While there are success stories, the bad... Read More