Freaking Out Over A Surreal Summer A resident of Martinez, California, in the Bay Area, texted a friend of mine last week: “Looks so creepy outside today!! It’s 10 a.m. and ash is all over the car; all the streetlights are still on and every car has headlights on too!” Another friend in the San … Continued

A Bad, Bad Idea Journalist Matthew Yglesias, co-founder of the progressive website Vox, occasionally has some good ideas. But Yglesias also has some really, really bad ideas, as when he claims the United States is “empty” and advocates in his new book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, for a tripling of the … Continued

In his August 26 article, “California, We Can’t Go On Like This,” The New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo said that “the nation’s most populous state” was also failing to live sustainably. Readers were quick to point out that Manjoo failed to make the connection between the two. Manjoo, who has written in favor of … Continued

If you were to poll average Americans as to what the most important natural resource is that sustains contemporary civilization, you’d probably get responses such as oil, soil, or water. And each of these would be good answers. For each of these substances is absolutely crucial in sustaining not just our standard of living but … Continued

Last week, Bloomberg’s Matthew Winkler wrote warmly of an “Economic Boom” happening in Los Angeles, California. The Big Orange should be thrilled: Measured by the growth of personal income, gross domestic product per capita, jobs, home prices, global trade and transportation, corporate equity and municipal debt, Los Angeles has become the most productive of the … Continued

Some of the most prominent immigration-reduction voices in the country are featured in a new book titled Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation.  The new book, a collection of essays about the environmental consequences of overpopulation, includes some significant voices for reducing immigration in order to stabilize U.S. population.  Many of Life on the Brink’s … Continued

Democratic Congressman Jared Polis sent out an interesting comment via Twitter on Wednesday afternoon. His Tweet simply said “Boulder residents r happiest ppl in the country :-)”. And Boulder residents should be happy. While the U.S. population has increased at a rate close to 10% over the past 10 years, Boulder’s population has grown by … Continued

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Philip Cafaro is an associate professor of philosophy at Colorado State Univeristy. He recounts for NumbersUSA’s audience how he realized the beauty in nature, and then found that immigration-fueled population growth was a major factor behind every major threat to nature. ) I’m an environmental activist, and have been for over twenty years. … Continued