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WELCOME TO THE NPG JOURNAL!
HERE'S YOUR FIRST COPY...

With our country set to pass the milestone of 300,000,000 people, the coming months will find much of America's attention focused on our growing population. Here at NPG we are taking this historic opportunity – combined with the advent of our 35th Anniversary in 2007 – to go beyond our traditional web postings and launch this new Internet-based educational publication which will be delivered every two weeks via e-mail to you and an ever-growing list of NPG members, media contacts, educators, friends and supporters.

Our purpose in launching the NPG Journal (offered free to all recipients) is to give more widespread distribution to timely news stories and articles related to population, immigration, environmental and political issues that currently affect our daily life – or have the potential to seriously impact our future. Combined with this information, NPG President Donald Mann will offer his personal insight and commentary on individual stories, especially those that challenge, confirm and/or complement our NPG Research and Forum Papers. In all, the NPG Journal will greatly expand NPG's educational mission, reinforce the vital need for Americans to speak up on population issues, and keep our nation – especially our elected leaders on the national, state and local level – focused on taking action that can rein-in today's out-of-control population and immigration crises.

We welcome your feedback to articles posted on the NPG Journal and urge you to forward us the e-mail address of friends you think would like to receive a complimentary copy of the NPG Journal on a bi-weekly basis. Contact us at npg@npg.org. Also, please use that address to tell us if you do not wish to continue to receive this publication. Thank you.


Featured Stories:

A New Front for California's Water Wars: Parched Inland Areas
Arizona's Thirsty Cities
Nevada Ranchers vs. Las Vegas' Unquenchable Thirst
Lifespans Could Soon Be Decades Longer


Commentary: by NPG President Donald Mann


WATER IN THE WEST
Ben Franklin had a knack for foresight, yet little did he know that in publishing his maxim, "it is not until the well runs dry, we know the worth of water" his words would be so applicable to one of the 21st century's most looming crises – the lack of water in America's West. Three recent news stories presented below from California, Arizona and Nevada reaffirm NPG's long-standing warnings that our natural resources of land, water and energy cannot be overexploited to feed today's large populations without serious repercussions for the future. In our view, without a drastic reduction in population size there can be no long-range solutions to the problem of water shortages. The accompanying stories offer three different perspectives on what's to come.


LENGTHENED LIFESPANS?
For all of the research NPG has funded throughout our almost 35 years on the looming population and immigration crises in America and the world, we have basically used current lifespan projections. The promise of major anti-aging breakthroughs in the near future only underscores the dire need for our elected leaders to focus on a National Population Policy that can reverse our population growth and realistically balance our limited natural resources. Reuters carried a story in early August that sparked a great deal of discussion at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine's convention last week. The London-based story quotes Cambridge-based biomedical gerontologist Aubrey deGrey that by 2036 the average lifespan in the developed world may be decades longer than it is now. Adding tens of millions more people – especially older people – to our future population would have far reaching societal, economic and environmental implications for our nation.


POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION NEWS NOTES
U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was quoted recently as stating: "Every state is a border state and every city is a border city." A news article in the Indianapolis Star in mid-summer (7/25/06) highlighted a study by the Sagamore Institute for Policy Reseach that found that Indianapolis had the fifth-highest rate of Latino population growth of any metropolitan area in the United States. It also found that Mexican population growth between 2000 and 2004 accounts for nearly half of the state's entire population increase and is more than neighboring states except Illinois.

If the feds won't act, the locals will... That's what the elected officials in Hazelton, PA did recently in passing the Illegal Immigration Relief Act which suspends the license of businesses that employ illegal aliens, imposes fines on landlords who rent to illegals and declares English as the official language of the city. Threatened with legal action, the city fathers didn't back down but rather rewrote the law to make sure it could face court tests. Riverside, New Jersey also recently passed an ordinance similar to Hazelton's.


NPG NEWS:

Our "WAKE UP AMERICA!" campaign is underway. We will mail our brand new, 25" x 36" full-color "It's Your Future" fact-filled, educational poster to thousands of 5-12 grade classrooms all across the nation later this month. NPG members and friends who would like a complimentary copy of this poster for a local school or library – or who wish to get one for your child or grandchild – are urged to contact us at npg@npg.org. Please supply your name and full mailing address.


About NPG:

Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) is a national nonprofit membership organization with over 30,000 members nationwide. It was founded in 1972 to educate the American public and political leaders about the devastating effects of overpopulation on our environment, resources, and standard of living. We believe that our nation is already vastly overpopulated in terms of the long-range carrying capacity of its resources and environment.