By Lisa Irving
Pundits advocating for increased immigration to the U.S. can find themselves at odds with their long-held policy commitments. Dissonance often arises when they sound the alarm about issues such as growing inequality or natural resource conservation while arguing for more U.S. immigration-driven population growth. In separate opinion pieces written this year, The New York Times … Continued
I have had the good fortune to experience the charms of both the Tar Heel State and the Palmetto State. For those Westerners who may never have ventured east of the Mississippi River, I’m referring to North Carolina and South Carolina. In the former, I have backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Newfound Gap in the … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Gary Wockner chimes in: A report titled, “How Much Nature Should America Keep?” in 2019 by the Center for American Progress indicates that: The United States loses a football field of natural land every 30 seconds, The continental United States lost 24 million acres of natural land to development between 2001 and 2017, At this … Continued
Sadly, in 2020 life is imitating art in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Art: In the Paramount Network’s hit contemporary Western series Yellowstone, set in western Montana’s rugged Rocky Mountains, Kevin Costner plays grizzled old cattle rancher and crusty patriarch John Dutton. For generations, Dutton and his forebears running the vast … 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
By Jeremy Beck
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
By Admins
Pollution is typically thought of as a visual, chemical, or physical substance that causes environmental harm. Often overlooked is noise pollution, which of course is a staple in densely populated cities, but it’s becoming increasingly problematic as a growing din infiltrates nature and our protected areas such as national parks. And while multiple studies have … Continued
For the past two decades, my NumbersUSA colleagues and I have prepared ten studies reporting on the relationship between immigration-driven U.S. population growth and urban sprawl. In recent years, our research has shown that in general, some 70 to 90 percent of all sprawl is related to population growth. Most of that population is now … Continued
By Christy Shaw
You could say that the impact hit me head on as soon as I read the first line. The average American commute grew to just over 27 minutes one way in 2018, a record high, according to data released in September by the U.S. Census Bureau. This was reported in The Washington Post‘s October 7th, … Continued
