VP Harris’ Missed Opportunity

By Jeremy Beck

When Rob Harding attended the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) this winter, participating governments had already failed to meet the targets they had set over the previous two decades (ICYMI, North American birds have declined by a third since the first Earth Day, a loss of over one billion birds). After experiencing COP15, Rob expects … Continued

Personal Freedom, Polling…and Pollinators!

By Jeremy Beck

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

Illegal Immigration Adds a Los Angeles Every Two Years

By Jeremy Beck

Over two million people, for each of the last two years, have either been released into the U.S., avoided detection, or overstayed a visa. Most are economic migrants who plan to stay for a while. That doesn’t count the more than one million who receive green cards every year. Four million people reside in the … Continued

If it can happen in Texas, it can happen anywhere

By Jeremy Beck

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

A well-managed immigration system will serve Americans and wildlife at the same time

By Jeremy Beck

Every environmental law faces the unrelenting headwinds of immigration-driven population growth. A recent study from Columbia University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology concludes that even with the Endangered Species Act, “most species are not receiving protection until their populations are precariously small.” More than a third of the nation’s plants and animals are … Continued

Protecting biodiversity abroad but not at home?

By Jeremy Beck

The Democrats’ double standard The Democratic Party acknowledges that human population growth endangers biodiversity and threatened species…in other countries. At home, they support immigration policies that accelerate U.S. population growth. Contact Congress In the recently-passed omnibus bill — Congressional Democrats earmarked “not less than $575,000,000” to be “made available for family planning/reproductive health, including in … Continued

No Apocalyptic Predictions Necessary. The Present is Enough

By Jeremy Beck

The legacy media is full of expansionist narratives built on the shaky foundation of Ponzi Demography, and the cracks are showing. The expanding human enterprise is contributing to the sixth mass extinction in the U.S. and around the world. The loss and destruction of critical habitat needs no Cassandra to prophecy where our current trajectory … Continued

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