In Tribute to Late Population Activists and Friends – Al Bartlett, Joyce Tarnow, Leon Bouvier, Alan Kuper, Gaylord Nelson, Garrett Hardin and K.R. Hammond
Having been immersed in the U.S. population stabilization movement for a couple of decades or more, I have had the great honor... Read More
Overusing the Planet’s Natural Capital — Earth Overshoot Day 2014
Today, Tuesday, August 19, is Earth Overshoot Day. This is the date humanity’s aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) exceeds our planet’s annual budget,... Read More
Numbers Should Trump the ‘Sympathy Card’
Open border advocates immediately play the “sympathy card” anytime anyone suggests limits on immigration. “They’re just poor huddled masses yearning to breathe... Read More
Growth Fueling Pessimism and Sentiment to Break Up California
California is not exempt from the pessimism about politics, and anxiety about the future, that has entrenched itself throughout America. Californians’ perceived... Read More
The State of the Population Debate
Today is World Population Day, observed internationally since 1989 to bring awareness to the urgency and importance of population issues and to... Read More
On Our Innumeracy
When I blog, it will be almost exclusively about the United States, one of the three most overpopulated nations. That is due... Read More
Diamonds (and Human Impacts) Are Forever: The Long-Lived Consequences of Growth
A “long time” depends on perspective – to an impatient child it’s measured in minutes, to a historian in decades or centuries,... Read More
The 300 Million-Immigrant Factor Facing America
With immigration’s continued onslaught prompted by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, we added 100 million people to America from 1965 to... Read More
Rhyming or Repeating, History Lessons May be Lost
Today is the 100th anniversary of what’s considered the start of WWI. On this date, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke... Read More
No Overpopulation in Wonderland
Those hoping to stabilize population can’t succeed if most people consider the problem already solved. Politicians won’t address that which is not... Read More