Was COP26 a cop-out? I think so, and here are a few reasons why

By Christy Shaw

As a person who cares about the environment and who also believes in a balanced approach to economic policy, I understand that immigration reduction is essential to sustainable and equitable policy approaches on both these issues. It also means I am in a rather foul mood after listening to the same old grand speeches at … Continued

Quality of life is challenging to maintain when our population is on the rise

By Admins

Buckeye, Arizona is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. There are numerous reasons why, but according to Rocket Mortgage, it’s in part because residents can “find a corner of town that feels like home in the Phoenix metro, which has a population of nearly five million people.” Between the small town charm … Continued

NYT Writers’ Dissonance on Immigration-Driven Population Growth

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

NYT Writers’ Dissonance on Immigration-Driven Population Growth

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

Growth Pummels North and South Carolina

By Leon Kolankiewicz

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

‘How Much Nature Should America Keep?’

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

Vanishing Elbow Room and Breathing Space: Crowds Flee to Northern Rockies from Packed, “Pandemicked” Cities

By Leon Kolankiewicz

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

The United States is Not ‘Empty’

By Leon Kolankiewicz

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

NYTimes Open-borders columnist: The nation’s most populated state isn’t living sustainably

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