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  • On Earth Day, Border Crisis Creates Enviro Worries On Earth Day, Border Crisis Creates Enviro Worries
      If Earth Day’s founders were alive to see the tattered remains of their noble mission, they would shake their heads in dismay. The essential requirement for a sound environment is a stable ...
  • Educated, High-Earning Californians Pack Up, Seek Greener Pastures Educated, High-Earning Californians Pack Up, Seek Greener Pastures
    After decades of dramatic population increases, California’s residency totals have stabilized, although not in the manner that advocates had hoped for. Radical policies embraced in Sacramento, and by other major municipalities ...
  • Moment of Truth Arrives for California Housing Moment of Truth Arrives for California Housing
    The race to pave over what little remains of California’s open space continues. In 2017, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed “15 good bills,” as he put it, to ease the persistent affordable housing ...
  • On Earth Day, Colorado Chooses Sprawl On Earth Day, Colorado Chooses Sprawl
    From coast-to-coast, concerned citizens have formed “Save our Neighborhood” organizations to protect their communities against relentless, all-consuming development. Politicians at the federal, state and local level demand more growth, residents’ wishes be ...
  • Cruise Ships Bigger not Better (for environment) Cruise Ships Bigger not Better (for environment)
    The cruise ship industry puts out beguiling advertisements intended to attract more customers on board. Showing couples in summer wear, sipping cocktails and looking out over the ocean to watch the setting sun as they ...
  • CBO Population Projection Off-Mark CBO Population Projection Off-Mark
    In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its projection for U.S. population growth from 2023 until 2053. CBO anticipates a huge hike from today’s 336 million U.S. residents to 373 million ...
  • Population Pressures Drying Up Great Salt Lake Population Pressures Drying Up Great Salt Lake
    Utah’s Great Salt Lake may disappear within the next five years, experts predict. A Brigham Young University report found that as of January 2023, the lake is 19 feet below its average level. ...
  • Interior Department Misguided Restoring America the Beautiful Interior Department Misguided Restoring America the Beautiful
    A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive 0rder 14008 (EO) that announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and water – 41.5 million acres per year – ...
  • U.S. Ecological Footprint Confronts Southwest Border Crisis U.S. Ecological Footprint Confronts Southwest Border Crisis
    Ask the millions of migrants who have either entered the United States or are lined up at the border what motivated their journeys, and all will answer that they’re in pursuit of the ...
  • The Race to Earth’s Nine Billionth Inhabitant is Underway 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 in mid-November, was greeted in some circles as a joyous event. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed 8 ...
  • Canada Doubles Down on Record Immigration-Driven Population Surge Canada Doubles Down on Record Immigration-Driven Population Surge
    Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser recently announced a bold immigration plan that has serious long-term deleterious consequences for the nation’s population growth and environmental degradation. Fraser’s goal is, by 2025, to add 1.45 million permanent resident ...
  • Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward
    Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled that a lawsuit brought forth by the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform (MCIR) against three federal agencies can ...
  • Nation’s Most Endangered River Provides Water to 40 Million Residents 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 the Colorado River’s reservoir level drop might bring dramatic cuts to water deliveries provided to the seven states dependent on the ...
  • Bone-Dry Western States Can’t Cope with Population Surges 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 reminder of the Southwest’s growing drought crisis. In early May, a family on a boating outing found, partially buried in ...
  • Noise Pollution, an Overpopulation-Related Health Crisis Noise Pollution, an Overpopulation-Related Health Crisis
    Overpopulation’s negative consequences are well-known to the nation’s environmentalists. Too many people lead to overdevelopment and put America’s already jeopardized resources, such as water, wetlands and wildlife, at further risk. International researchers have concluded that ...
  • Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time? 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,” s/he is hit with a staggering amount of stats on issues that, unless one lives in media isolation, should be ...
  • The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water? The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water?
    Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction of their intended size, national news media is reporting that the American Southwest is in the worst 20-year drought in 1,200 ...
  • Drought, Border Surge Incompatible Drought, Border Surge Incompatible
    Plumes from the Dixie Fire, Plumas County, Calif., July 22, 2021. The federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor indicates that nearly half the nation is suffering from abnormally dry drought conditions. States in the West are ...
  • RIP: Richard Lamm, Our Ally for Stable Population and Manageable Immigration RIP: Richard Lamm, Our Ally for Stable Population and Manageable Immigration
    On July 29, Richard D. Lamm, Colorado’s three-term governor, 1975-1987, died of complications from a pulmonary embolism. He was a week away from his 86th birthday. Lamm was a Democrat who earned his J.D. degree ...
  • Environmentalists Back in the Game Environmentalists Back in the Game
    Biden’s irresponsible, illegal border permissiveness violates the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which President Richard Nixon signed in 1970 and recognized that population directly affects the environment.
  • Border Failures Grow U.S. Population Border Failures Grow U.S. Population
    Ever-growing human populations, with their larger carbon footprint, are a big variable in climate change.
  • Calif. Gov., Feds Agree on Wildfire Management Plan Calif. Gov., Feds Agree on Wildfire Management Plan
      Two years ago, California’s Little Hoover Commission warned that unless the state took immediate streps to limit wildfire probabilities, death and destruction were a near-certainty. The Little Hoover Commission, created in 1962, is an independent ...
  • Newsom and the Internal Combustion Engine Ban Newsom and the Internal Combustion Engine Ban
    About a decade ago , as I was reading Jared Diamond’s “Collapse,” the questions most prominent in my mind were: How did entire societies of human beings continue over-consuming until they died? Why did a ...
  • America’s West Coast is on Fire America’s West Coast is on Fire
    The forests and chaparral of California, Oregon and Washington are on fire. Our Brilliant-in-Dogma governors have declared this is due to Global Warming. It isn’t. It’s due to bad policy. It used to be that state ...
  • More Americans = Less Wilderness More Americans = Less Wilderness
    For decades, federal immigration laws have been a hot-button issue. Nearly 55 years ago, on October 3, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Although few could have imagined it at ...
  • Overpopulation Sparks Calif. Wildfires Overpopulation Sparks Calif. Wildfires
    California is once again in the news. As always, bad news puts the state’s latest crisis above the daily newspaper’s fold. Instead of stories about homelessness throughout the state, particularly acute in San Francisco and ...
  • World Population Nears 8 Billion World Population Nears 8 Billion
      World Population Day, created by the United Nations “to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues,” came and passed this month. The top news results in a quick Google search on the ...
  • Population Stabilization or Higher Immigration? Americans Can’t Have Both Population Stabilization or Higher Immigration? Americans Can’t Have Both
    Today more than ever Americans value the opportunity to escape from their confined urban lives and enjoy the natural habitat. A Pulse Research poll of likely voters showed that preference for preserving natural habitat and ...
  • Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Virtually
    With much of the U.S. on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the momentous physical celebration planned to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day and the start of the national movement to promote environmental ...
  • Practice the Five Rs to Lower U.S. Carbon Footprint Practice the Five Rs to Lower U.S. Carbon Footprint
    For the first time in decades, Americans living in the nation’s major urban areas have a sense of what less populated metropolises could be like. Coronavirus has led to nationwide stay-at-home orders which in turn ...

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  • Educated, High-Earning Californians Pack Up, Seek Greener Pastures Educated, High-Earning Californians Pack Up, Seek Greener Pastures
    After decades of dramatic population increases, California’s residency totals have stabilized, although not in the manner that advocates had hoped for. Radical policies embraced in Sacramento, and by other major municipalities including Los Angeles and San Francisco, have accelerated residents’ departure. Those still stuck behind are left to cope ...
  • Moment of Truth Arrives for California Housing Moment of Truth Arrives for California Housing
    The race to pave over what little remains of California’s open space continues. In 2017, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed “15 good bills,” as he put it, to ease the persistent affordable housing shortage in California. Brown, surrounded by advocates and real estate barons, said: “It is a big challenge. We have ...
  • On Earth Day, Colorado Chooses Sprawl On Earth Day, Colorado Chooses Sprawl
    From coast-to-coast, concerned citizens have formed “Save our Neighborhood” organizations to protect their communities against relentless, all-consuming development. Politicians at the federal, state and local level demand more growth, residents’ wishes be damned. Consider Colorado. Because of the Centennial State’s environmental bounty, thousands of disgruntled Americans left home to make Colorado ...
  • Cruise Ships Bigger not Better (for environment) Cruise Ships Bigger not Better (for environment)
    The cruise ship industry puts out beguiling advertisements intended to attract more customers on board. Showing couples in summer wear, sipping cocktails and looking out over the ocean to watch the setting sun as they sail off to a distant, romantic destination, ads appear everywhere, from television, social media and movie previews to subway cars. A ...
  • CBO Population Projection Off-Mark CBO Population Projection Off-Mark
    In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its projection for U.S. population growth from 2023 until 2053. CBO anticipates a huge hike from today’s 336 million U.S. residents to 373 million three-decades out, a 37-million-person surge. Over the next decade, immigration will represent about three-quarters of the overall population increase, ...
  • Population Pressures Drying Up Great Salt Lake Population Pressures Drying Up Great Salt Lake
    Utah’s Great Salt Lake may disappear within the next five years, experts predict. A Brigham Young University report found that as of January 2023, the lake is 19 feet below its average level. Since 1850, the Great Salt Lake has lost 73 percent of its water and more than half of its ...
  • Interior Department Misguided Restoring America the Beautiful Interior Department Misguided Restoring America the Beautiful
    A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive 0rder 14008 (EO) that announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and water – 41.5 million acres per year – by 2030. Then, on May 6, 2021, the Department of the Interior published “Conserving and Restoring America the ...
  • U.S. Ecological Footprint Confronts Southwest Border Crisis U.S. Ecological Footprint Confronts Southwest Border Crisis
    Ask the millions of migrants who have either entered the United States or are lined up at the border what motivated their journeys, and all will answer that they’re in pursuit of the proverbial better life. Translated, a better life means they’re longing to become consumers—consumers of housing, hard goods like ...
  • The Race to Earth’s Nine Billionth Inhabitant is Underway 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 in mid-November, was greeted in some circles as a joyous event. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed 8 billion people as an occasion “to celebrate diversity and enhancements.” For other population growth enthusiasts, 2037 can’t come fast ...
  • Canada Doubles Down on Record Immigration-Driven Population Surge Canada Doubles Down on Record Immigration-Driven Population Surge
    Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser recently announced a bold immigration plan that has serious long-term deleterious consequences for the nation’s population growth and environmental degradation. Fraser’s goal is, by 2025, to add 1.45 million permanent resident immigrants to address what he and other government officials claim is a critical labor shortage; allegedly 1 million Canadian jobs ...
  • Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward
    Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled that a lawsuit brought forth by the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform (MCIR) against three federal agencies can proceed. In a nutshell and according to the Boston Associated Press, “A group calling for sharply limiting immigration has scored a ...
  • Nation’s Most Endangered River Provides Water to 40 Million Residents 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 the Colorado River’s reservoir level drop might bring dramatic cuts to water deliveries provided to the seven states dependent on the river. Those states are Colorado, California, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and Nevada. Alarmingly, given its importance, the conservation group ...
  • Bone-Dry Western States Can’t Cope with Population Surges 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 reminder of the Southwest’s growing drought crisis. In early May, a family on a boating outing found, partially buried in Lake Mead National Recreation Area’s muddy banks, a four-decades-old skeleton of a man, a suspected homicide, stuffed into a rotted-out ...
  • Noise Pollution, an Overpopulation-Related Health Crisis Noise Pollution, an Overpopulation-Related Health Crisis
    Overpopulation’s negative consequences are well-known to the nation’s environmentalists. Too many people lead to overdevelopment and put America’s already jeopardized resources, such as water, wetlands and wildlife, at further risk. International researchers have concluded that too many people also creates a level of noise pollution that brings with it serious health problems.   In today’s chaotic world, ...
  • Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time? 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,” s/he is hit with a staggering amount of stats on issues that, unless one lives in media isolation, should be somewhat familiar – peak oil, species/biodiversity extinction, consumption, pollution and the underpinning escalating all these crises, too many people. In ...
  • The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water? The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water?
    Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction of their intended size, national news media is reporting that the American Southwest is in the worst 20-year drought in 1,200 years. Yet, no one asked why President Biden is hellbent on increasing immigration – which has exploded the U.S. population by ...
  • Drought, Border Surge Incompatible Drought, Border Surge Incompatible
    Plumes from the Dixie Fire, Plumas County, Calif., July 22, 2021. The federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor indicates that nearly half the nation is suffering from abnormally dry drought conditions. States in the West are the most adversely affected, but parts of the Midwest and the East are classified as experiencing extreme, severe or ...
  • RIP: Richard Lamm, Our Ally for Stable Population and Manageable Immigration RIP: Richard Lamm, Our Ally for Stable Population and Manageable Immigration
    On July 29, Richard D. Lamm, Colorado’s three-term governor, 1975-1987, died of complications from a pulmonary embolism. He was a week away from his 86th birthday. Lamm was a Democrat who earned his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, served in the U.S. Army and became an attorney for the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission. ...
  • Environmentalists Back in the Game Environmentalists Back in the Game
    Biden’s irresponsible, illegal border permissiveness violates the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which President Richard Nixon signed in 1970 and recognized that population directly affects the environment.
  • Border Failures Grow U.S. Population Border Failures Grow U.S. Population
    Ever-growing human populations, with their larger carbon footprint, are a big variable in climate change.