Category Archives: Population Impact

Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time?

As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” [...]

Sneaky Congress up to its Old Tricks; Stealth Amnesty for Liberians

Recently, I’ve become addicted to the Weather Channel. The reason is simple. Every word that [...]

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The Great Divide: Congress and Voters on Immigration

A year-end Associated Press poll showed that the two top 2019 stories were, first, the [...]

California Population Hits 40 Million, Leadership Encourages More Immigration

The California Department of Finance announced that the state’s population fell just 40,000 people short [...]

Post-Earth Day Thoughts about Sustainability

Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson’s daughter Tia recently said that her father would be “deeply [...]

Immigration Foils Small Classroom Fantasy of L.A. Teachers

If any reader can describe a more comic-tragic state than Los Angeles Unified School District [...]

Call to Journalists: Return to Your Abandoned Professional Standards

On New Year’s Eve, The Washington Post published a shockingly biased, even as measured in the [...]

Christmas in New York: A Cautionary Tale

I’ve seen the major U.S. metropolis’ future, and the picture is bleak. A New York [...]

California’s Worst Wildfires Must be a Wake-Up Call

For California natives like me, the wildfires are a real gut punch. As of this [...]

California, Once ‘Eternal Verdure,’ Now Overpopulated Nightmare

In 1845, Lansford W. Hastings, best known for developing the Hastings Cutoff, a travelers’ shortcut [...]

Earth Overshoot Day Offers Sustainability Lessons

Tomorrow will mark Earth Overshoot Day, the day that worldwide humanity will, in only seven months, [...]

Report: Prospects for Reducing Rush-Hour Traffic ‘Dim’

Summer is half over which means that many people have taken their traditional driving vacation, [...]

Some 600 Detained Migrants Are Pregnant, Will Bear Citizen Children

In as troubling an immigration story as anyone will read this summer, between December 2017 [...]

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As U.S. Population Rises, Environmental Leaders Ignore the Obvious

The Washington Post recently published a column titled “Why do we need more people in this [...]

Observing Our Impact This World Population Day

July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus [...]

California Gubernatorial Hopefuls Share Same Platform of Building More Housing

California’s six gubernatorial candidates – four Democrats and two Republicans – have one common platform: build [...]

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Paradise Lost: Sprawl Transformed Honolulu From Utopia to Urban Mess

Let’s be clear from the outset. Travelers who have never visited Honolulu, Hawaii’s capital located [...]

On Earth Day 2018, Congress Whistling Past Graveyard on Population Growth

Last month, the United Nations hosted a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) conference in Bonn, Germany. [...]

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A Californian Warns: ‘Don’t Go West, Young Man’

California, the preferred destination for travelers who took publisher Horace Greeley’s long-ago suggestion to “Go [...]

Adding Immigrants to Bolster an Aging America is a Ponzi Scheme

Good and possibly great news: the U.S. birthrate continues to trend lower, now at the [...]

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Alarming Environmental Report Disingenuously Dodges Overpopulation Link

“Disappearing Rivers,” a Center for American Progress-commissioned report, was introduced to a Washington, D.C. audience [...]