Hope for 2023

By Jeremy Beck

Hope for the 6.5 million more Americans who would be working today if the Labor Force Participation Rate was as high as it was in the year 2000. Hope for the homeless, 40 percent of whom are Black, whose resources have been diverted to accommodate the record wave of illegal immigration. Hope for the world’s … Continued

Growth like this dashes any hope of Biden’s “30 by 30” plan becoming a reality

By Jeremy Beck

Federal Conservation and Population Policies At Odds “WILDLIFE IS DISAPPEARING around the world,” The New York Times reports. “Humans are taking over too much of the planet, erasing what was there before…” Habitat corridors across the American landscape are being extinguished. Good faith efforts to save them can only hope to mitigate the loss if … Continued

Congress Negates Americans’ Sacrifices

By Jeremy Beck

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

More Immigration = More Americans = Less Wilderness

By Jeremy Beck

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

NumbersUSA bids farewell to friend and fearless wilderness warrior Dave Foreman (1946-2022)

By Leon Kolankiewicz

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

50 years ago, John Denver was already cautioning against too many people in Colorado…

By Christy Shaw

In 1972, just two years before singer-songwriter John Denver was inspired to write Rocky Mountain High, the population of his favorite state of Colorado was 2.21 million. By 2021, the population had more than doubled to 5.8 million. And it is still growing rapidly. According to NumbersUSA’s new Colorado Sprawl Study, 53% of the growth … Continued

Remembering Prof. Herman E. Daly (1938 – 2022): Father of Ecological Economics, Opponent of Overpopulation and Mass Immigration

By Leon Kolankiewicz

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

A conservation group canceled her. So, she donated her refunded fee to groups who confront reality

By Jeremy Beck

Dr. Karen I. Shragg was scheduled to give her talk, “Sprawling Over America, Why the endangered Species Act isn’t enough” to a symposium about protecting the endangered wolf whose habitat in the United States has been broken up by development to accommodate the growing U.S. population. Shragg’s presentation notes the mathematical fact that immigration policy … Continued

A permanent loss of incalculable value

By Jeremy Beck

Many scientists believe we are living through the sixth mass extinction — the largest loss of life on Earth since the time of the dinosaurs — and that it is being driven by humans. The 2022 Living Planet Report, compiled by World Wildlife Fund International and the Zoological Society of London, assessed the abundance of … Continued