As reported in The Guardian, The United Nation’s Global Land Outlook, Second Edition report findings recently revealed that over 40% of the world’s land is now degraded. Degraded land is defined as that: …which has been depleted of natural resources, soil fertility, water, biodiversity, trees or native vegetation…” The report further explains that “degraded” land … Continued

From the vantage point of my desk, I observe people on the street walking with lunches from nearby restaurants, chatting on their cell phones, and toting packages or shopping bags. These mundane day-to-day activities are done without much thought, as they are part of our regular routines, but what we consume is a feature of … Continued

Satellite data show that in the last nine years, as a powerful drought held fast and river flows plummeted, the majority of the freshwater losses in the Basin — nearly 80 percent — came from water pumped out of aquifers. The decrease in groundwater reserves is a volume of water equivalent to one and a … Continued

Annually, the Global Footprint Network “measures a population’s demand for and ecosystems’ supply of resources and services” to inform us when during the course of a year we’ve reached overshoot – the point when we’ve used up what the Earth’s ecosystem has to give. That date this year is March 13 for the United States, … Continued

The Washington Post Editorial Board recently argued for greatly increasing immigration numbers (and births) to accelerate U.S. population growth after the U.S. grew by “only” 22.7 million over the last decade. The editors may or may not realize that they are peddling what demographer Joseph Chamie calls “Ponzi demography” – a scam that privatizes profits … Continued

The Washington Post Editorial Board recently argued for greatly increasing immigration numbers (and births) to accelerate U.S. population growth after the U.S. grew by “only” 22.7 million over the last decade. The editors may or may not realize that they are peddling what demographer Joseph Chamie calls “Ponzi demography” – a scam that privatizes profits … Continued

Who is more compassionate? Those who encourage the smuggling and ensuant abuse and neglect of migrant children brought across the Southern border, or those who genuinely act to deter and stop it? Currently, there are too few of the latter who support actual immigration reform to stop the jobs magnet with mandatory E-verify and significantly … Continued

Who is more compassionate? Those who encourage the smuggling and ensuant abuse and neglect of migrant children brought across the Southern border, or those who genuinely act to deter and stop it? Currently, there are too few of the latter who support actual immigration reform to stop the jobs magnet with mandatory E-verify and significantly … Continued

Washington Post opinion columnist Catherine Rampell’s recent “A year into his presidency, Biden has kept some of Trump’s worst immigration policies in place. Why?” embraced the tough task of making the case that Presidents Biden and Trump aren’t so dissimilar when it comes to border policies. The piece even managed to touch on Biden’s as-of-yet … Continued