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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having just spent the better part of three months in Hawaii, I found the state doing what it can to encourage environmentally sound practices. There are numerous organizations working to protect native plants, animals, ecosystems ...

“If every member of the United States lived in an area with the population density of Brooklyn, New York, all 327 million of us could fit into New Hampshire,” wrote Jennifer Wright in a recent ...

For some time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been using his ample platform to sound off about population: not the world’s continuing, disastrous human population boom, but what he foresees as an impending population collapse. At ...

The Trump administration is about to implement new rules that it claims will “modernize” and “improve” the Endangered Species Act (ESA). All too predictably, certain industries in Trump’s favor approve of this imminent overhaul, while ...

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As in prior years, IFSPP had the opportunity to participate in EarthX 2019, in Dallas, TX. Attendance at our booth was high and the staff was busy answer questions from wanting to learn more about ...

Fifty years ago, in 1969 when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon, the world’s population was 3.6 billion; in 2019, it’s 7.7 billion. A half a century ago, the ...

DALLAS (April 21, 2019) – Increasing awareness of damage done to the environment by human impact in the 20th century, spurred by works such as Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” in 1962 and Paul and Anne ...

Steven Lamb and Kevin Lynn separate fact from fiction with regard to House Resolution 109 – The New Green Deal

Readers of my work may recall a previous OP ED in June, in which I repeated my concern about overpopulation as the root cause of disasters now pending as closer to apocalypse for our planet ...

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. We are using 1.7 Earths. We use more ecological resources and services than nature ...

Humanity is using more resources per year than ever, and it’s getting to the point where the Earth can barely keep up. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services ...

July 11th is observed by the United Nations as World Population Day. Every year the world’s population increases by approximately 83 million, and even generous estimates expect we will reach 8.6 billion by 2030, and 9.8 ...

July 11th is recognized as UN World Population Day. Beginning in 1989, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. As former Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower once said, “You ...

As we acknowledge World Environment Day and World Oceans Day this week – days to recognize the human impact on our environment and discuss the best ways to help protect it – and in Pennsylvania, many are using ...

June 5th is World Environment Day, and later this week on June 8th is World Oceans Day, two days that share a common theme this year: plastic pollution and waste. Think about how much plastic you encounter in ...

Talking past each other as the planet gets more and more uninhabitable will likely not be recognized by William McGurn until the rising waters in NYC come lapping at his office door. His April 30, ...

On Friday, April 13, more than one hundred protesters from across the state, even some from Maryland and Virginia, came to the steps of Harrisburg’s Capitol Building to demand action from Governor Tom Wolf. The organizers ...

Paul Clark, Environmental Scientist recently published a book entitled, Pandora’s Green Box, wherein he discusses the feckless nature of the enironmental movement in the United States because it will not address the issue of population and to a greater extent, unbridled immigration.  The 40 minute interview with Paul will challenge the listener to awake to the impact ...

The United States is facing one of the worst hurricane seasons it has had in decades. With the triple threat of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and now Maria (with Jose on the way as well,) damage levels are already stacking into the billions. Even now, Puerto Rico’s power grid has been decimated, and thousands are in ...

Three years ago activists first began organizing against Williams Energy’s Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, a 125-mile natural gas pipeline whose proposed route will bring it through the heart of Lancaster County. All knew the day would come when few options would remain but civil disobedience to stop the pipeline. With rulings last week by a federal judge, ...

On August 16th a bill began winding its way through the Pennsylvania legislature.  It is entitled the Commonwealth Response Cost Reimbursement Act.  But a more appropriate title would be the Pipeplene Protestor Intimidation Act.  This is a really bad bill that keeps the citizens from defending their homes and is an out and out assault ...

It has become a more common sight every year. Husks of retail giants, the likes of Sears, Kmart, JC Penney, and Macy’s appear scattered across the landscape like Elephant Graveyards. Yet with every retail store shuttered, it seems that another comes to take its place. They do not reuse the skeleton of their fallen brethren, instead ...

On August 2nd, President Donald Trump unveiled a bold new immigration bill alongside Republican Senators Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.) at the White House. The bill, known as the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act or “RAISE,” proposes that the United States cut down on immigration by at least 50 percent by ...

Guest Post: Donald Collins’ article on the “population bomb” and the history of birth control is an intriguing look into how we must consider family planning in the grand scheme of our problem of population growth. Collins, a long time advocate of women’s reproductive health rights, discusses the importance of assuring family planning capabilities not just ...

Last night I went to a showing of the documentary film, Pipeline Fighters and was impressed with Marino Colmano’s work. Although it primarily deals with fighting the construction of pipelines across a handful of Mid-Atlantic States, it is packed with valuable direct action tactics that could be of use to any concerned citizen and not ...

The IFSPP team spent some time in Dallas last week attending Earth Day Texas, a huge event that took place at the Fair Grounds. I wandered around with my camera and shot some video of folks that were displaying there. This video probably isn’t for the faint of heart, but hey, not taking care of ...

IFSPP attended Earth Day Texas 2017 in Dallas last month.  Our Immigration Environmental Impact Statement was featured front and center at out booth.  We had fantastic and informative conversations with hundreds of visitors and would like to think we raised awareness on the impact the number of people have on the environment and how those ...

I raged when the London paper, The Guardian, reported several hundred peaceful protesters were injured during the standoff with police last Sunday at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, on a bridge near a site where an oil pipeline is planned to cross under the Missouri river. One of the protestors, 21-year old, Sophia Wilansky ...

In last week’s blog I shared my reaction to the environmental theme of the Rio Olympics’ opening ceremonies in which I opined, it would have been more effective to pass out condoms to the athletes as they paraded into the stadium than seedlings to be planted after the event. As expected, I did receive a ...

In last week’s blog I shared my reaction to the environmental theme of the Rio Olympic’s opening ceremonies in which I opined, it would have been more effective to pass out condoms to the athletes as they paraded into the stadium than seedlings to be planted after the event. As expected, I did receive a ...

Last Friday evening I pulled into a bar to watch the opening ceremonies of 2016 Rio Olympics. Although viewership was down from the London Olympics four years prior, it is estimated that some 30 million people across the country watched. Although much of the entertainment took the form of a great big party, the underlying ...

Last Friday evening I pulled into a bar to watch the opening ceremonies of 2016 Rio Olympics. Although viewership was down from the London Olympics four years prior, it is estimated that some 30 million people across the country watched. Although much of the entertainment took the form of a great big party, ...

Both the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are considering measures to “deal with homelessness”.  However, none of these measures take into account any of the STRUCTURAL causes of expensive housing or homelessness, and most of these structural causes are the direct result of GOVERNMENTAL POLICY. If you go down and hand ...

The world is drowning in oil. Nations across the globe, including the United States, are pumping more and more oil. This increase in production has sent oil prices to some of their lowest levels since the 1990s. But this resource boom won’t last forever. As PFIR’s Environmental Impact Statement explains, population growth in the United States will ...

World Bank officials just cautioned that rapid population growth, combined with global warming, could cause severe water shortages across the globe. Americans would be wise to heed the warning – and limit population growth by reducing immigration. As PFIR’s Environmental Impact Statement explains, current immigration levels will overtax limited U.S. water resources, threatening public health and ...

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