This book explores a fundamental but seldom asked question: has the recent growth of human numbers and economic activity imperiled our well-being, social justice and even the natural support systems on which we and other creatures depend?
Continue ReadingThe Wall Street Journal on April 1st ran a page one lead story about the promise of the new Hibernia oil field off Newfoundland (“Politics, Money and Nature Had Kept Vast Deposit on Ice,” by Staff Reporter Allana Sullivan).
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The nation grows, but public and political interest in the consequences is close to negligible. That inattention makes the issue more, not less, important. What is here proposed is the use of a systematic foresight process — a “Sustainability Project” — to bring population growth back into the national debate by publicizing …
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version. The term “sustainable development” has become fashionable, but it is regularly used in the sense of “sustainable growth,” a self-contradictory concept beloved by those who want to continue at the same old stand growth as a solution to all problems and yet couch it in terms that will not offend environmentalists. The …
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Lindsey Grant examines the human condition as population and consumption levels approach the edges of the Earth’s ability to support them.
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Confronting The 21st Century’s Hidden Crisis: Reducing Human Numbers by 80% An NPG Forum Paper by J. Kenneth Smail August 1995 J. Kenneth Smail is a Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology/Sociology at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio My position is simply stated. Within the next half-century, it will be essential for the …
Continue ReadingI participated recently in a round table organized by the Commission on Immigration Reform and was asked to make a brief list of suggestions for its attention. Here is that list.
Continue ReadingSeen from a reasonably detached viewpoint — from Mars, let us say — the arguments for arresting U.S. population growth would seem so compelling as to raise the question “why isn’t it being done.”
Continue ReadingIn this tough-minded, lucid book, Leon Bouvier and Lindsey Grant examine the inevitable and escalating environmental degradation that will result if population growth pushes the limits of our already strained…
Continue ReadingIn the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far?
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