Basic Freedoms Four out of five Americans say the area where they live either has enough people living there, or is already too crowded. In a recent CBS News poll (May 2023), Americans were asked about population density where they live, and whether or not their areas needed more people. Almost a third of Americans … Continued

Proposals to accommodate the worst border crisis America has ever witnessed belong in the realm of science fiction, in a world where limits don’t exist. In reality, the lesson of limits is all around us. Groundwater can take thousands of years to replenish, and Arizona is running out of it. The New York Times reports … Continued

Last week, NumbersUSA sent a team to the Texas State Fair grounds in Dallas, TX, site of the largest Earth Day exposition in the world, EarthX. We presented our new study on Texas sprawl, and shared our exhibit with over a fifteen hundred people, most of whom were not surprised to learn that Texas has … Continued

Bigger isn’t always better, not even in the great state of Texas, where a plurality of voters want to slow the pace of population growth and development to enjoy a better quality of life. Texas has been hit hard by the ongoing surge in illegal immigration. A strong majority of Texans – 57 percent – … Continued

President Biden set an ambitious goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. NumbersUSA, a single-issue organization, takes no position on Biden’s climate plan. But whether you support the president’s plan or not, we can tell you that emissions will not be cut in half by 2030 under current immigration levels. NumbersUSA’s Scientific … Continued

Millions of Americans limit their personal consumption to conserve natural resources. But there is a movement afoot to ask Americans to sacrifice not for nature’s sake, but in order to pack more people into the country, the states, cities and towns. We are being asked to conserve more individually so we can consume more collectively. … Continued

The human population of the world has reached 8 billion people. Due to our affluence, population growth in the United States has a far greater impact than growth in other nations, and we are already running an ecological deficit. The biosphere was not on the ballot on November 8th. Calls to increase immigration in the … Continued

Legendary wilderness warrior, rewilding pioneer, and NumbersUSA friend Dave Foreman died this past September 19 at the age of 75 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, succumbing to an illness called interstitial lung disease. With his death, Mother Earth lost a diehard defender and the United States a formidable fighter for rational population and immigration policies cognizant … Continued

Around the world, those of us who have, for half a century and more, questioned and challenged the reining dogma of “growthmania” — the widespread delusion that infinite population and economic growth is possible in a finite ecosphere — are in mourning. It is as if, as Herman’s longtime colleague and admirer William E. Rees … Continued