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 ...

Earth Day Network, an environmental advocacy group, plans to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020. Americans are going to need every one of them to mitigate the environmental damage done by the nation’s immigration policies. As PFIR’s new Environmental Impact Statement explains, immigration drives rapid population growth. That, in turn, drastically increases the pace of urban ...

Every 13 seconds, the Census Bureau’s U.S. Population Clock ticks up by one person. Unfortunately, the rest of the government isn’t tracking the impact of this high growth rate. If it were, officials would realize that there simply aren’t enough resources to support so many people. PFIR’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) demonstrates this worrying truth. With ...

I drove by a gasoline station the other day in Pasadena, California, and noticed for the first time in a long time, the price of a gallon of gasoline was under $3.00.  Brent crude is under $50.00.  This brief video portrays why I think this one thing more than anything else will rid us of the ...

On Saturday, May 23, 2015 hundreds of Angelenos gathered to stage a rally and march to protest genetically modified foods (GMOs) and inform the public as to how they can harm their health and wellness.   Steve and Kevin visited the rally in order to listen, learn and share what they saw and heard with you. They ...

  On Saturday, May 9th the Malibu Democratic Club hosted an amazing series of presentations concerning the Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant, the menace it poses to Southern California and the need to bring its generating days to a end and begin its decommissioning. The Center for Populist Urban Politics is grateful it had the opportunity to record ...

One of the problems with trying to have a conversation on the topic of overpopulation is bringing it home to a local level. Sure, we are on our way to 9 billion people on this earth, but what does that mean to me here in Southern California. In this week’s  interview with Dr. Ben Zuckerman we ...

Nearly 60% of the world’s human population is malnourished and the numbers are growing. Shortages of basic foods related to decreases in per capita cropland, water, and fossil energy resources contribute to spreading malnutrition and other diseases. The suggestion is that in the future only a smaller number of people will have access to adequate ...

“Once the population and economy have overshot the physical limits of the Earth, there are only two ways back: Involuntary collapse caused by escalating shortages and crises, or controlled reduction of throughput by deliberate social choice.” – Dennis Meadows et al Original sin had nothing to do with a garden and an apple; it occurred the first time one ...