Category Archives: Population Impact

U.S. Ecological Footprint Confronts Southwest Border Crisis

Ask the millions of migrants who have either entered the United States or are lined [...]

The Race to Earth’s Nine Billionth Inhabitant is Underway

The arrival of the planet’s 8 billionth human inhabitant, which the United Nations excitedly announced [...]

Congress Makes Last-Ditch Amnesty Push

Emboldened by their better-than-anticipated mid-term election performance, the Democratic Party is entering the Lame Duck [...]

Border Surge Inundates School Districts

As worldwide migrants continue to pour across the Southwest border, the financial and emotional toll [...]

Migrant School Enrollment Begins; Less Teacher Time for U.S. Kids

New York City public schools are bracing for a significant enrollment of non-English speaking migrants. [...]

Muddled Musk Wrong on Population

For number crunchers, July’s second week offered eyepopping data. To begin with, the consumer price [...]

Nation’s Most Endangered River Provides Water to 40 Million Residents

  At a June 14 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting, environmentalists warned that [...]

Bone-Dry Western States Can’t Cope with Population Surges

The grisly discovery of human remains at the bottom of Lake Mead is a grim [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]