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CAPS Ad Reminds Los Angeles that Immigration Drives Most Population Growth
Los Angeles, where I was born and spent most of my youth, is bursting at the seams – too many people, too many cars, too much construction, and therefore too much lost open space. Hard to believe...
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New Report Underlines Link between Immigration and Unsustainable Population...
For Americans concerned about rapid, unsustainable population growth, a newly released Pew Research Center report confirms that immigration has been its primary driver. The Pew study supplements its...
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Big Island Reality: Population Pressures Everywhere
Within less than an hour after deplaning at the Kona International Airport on Hawaii’s Big Island, tourists who may have envisioned an island paradise retreat will get a rude reality jolt. Exiting the...
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On World Population Day, Ignorance and Apathy Rule
July 11th is World Population Day. Originally conceived in 1989 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), this global event aims to focus the world’s attention on the importance and urgency...
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The Tragic Face of Extinction
The critically endangered blue-eyed black lemur of Madagascar– only 100 survive in the wild. Wild creatures our grandchildren will never experience in person stare back at the camera with haunting eyes...
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Too Crowded California Adds to Firefighters’ Challenges
Whatever else Donald Trump’s presidency may or may not mean, it’s kept immigration in the media limelight. Just as it was in the Obama administration, immigration is debated contentiously between the...
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Crowded Campsites: Another Symptom of Overpopulation
Years ago, in less crowded, hectic times, my girlfriend and I enjoyed a tranquil and delightful stay at one of the 10 rustic wooden cabins at Steep Ravine in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County,...
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High Population Density Pollutes Beaches (Sometimes)
Around the world, one of the typical consequences of high human population density in coastal zones is polluted beaches, or to be more precise, polluted water at those beaches. This water pollution...
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Freaking Out Over Falling Fertility Rates
In 1986, demographers Michael Teitelbaum and Jay Winter wrote a prophetic book entitled The Fear of Population Decline. In the three decades since, the population of virtually every country on Earth...
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Overpopulated Los Angeles Now Coping with Homeless Latinos
Fewer People Best Solution to Homelessness. In Los Angeles County, the annual population increases have brought with it a sharp rise in Latino homelessness. L.A. County’s 1950 population was 4.1...
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California Education System Overwhelmed, Can’t Keep up with Student...
CSU to end remedial English, math classes. Each year, according to a recent New York Times story, about a third of incoming California State University students enroll in remedial English and math...
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As U.S. Population Rises, Groundwater Levels Fall
A new analysis by the Alexandria, Virginia-based group Negative Population Growth (NPG) finds that rapid U.S. population growth is stressing both the quantity and quality of our nation’s critical...
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Three U.S. National Commissions Calling for Immigration Reductions and U.S....
Emeritus professor of biology at San Diego State University, Fellow of AAAS, and president of Scientists and Environmentalists for Population Stabilization. Contact: hurlbert@mail.sdsu.edu.US...
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Population Growth: Overlooked Cause of Astronomical Housing Costs in California
Astronomical: the cost of housing in San Francisco(Telegraph Hill District) California has a serious housing affordability crisis on its hands. It is not one that developed overnight, but one that has...
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The Last Peach
Population Growth, Sprawl Threaten California’s Crops. For some, Labor Day marks summer’s end. For others, summer is over, symbolically at least, when the last peach vanishes from California’s farmer’s...
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A U.S. with One Billion People ‘Would be Amazing’
By so many objectives measures, and on a daily basis, the U.S. goes further down the rabbit hole on matters across the board. Today rule of law often is looked at askance. Facts are increasingly...
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Frustrated New York Subway Riders Struggling with Over-Population Related Delays
75,000 subway delays monthly, overpopulation contributes to one-third of them. New York Times reporters have linked the city’s subway delays to overpopulation. As far-fetched as this may sound to the...
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Here Come the Giga-Mansions; There Go California’s Magnificent Hillsides
Home, Sweet, Home: 100,000-square-foot, $500 million monstrosity, latest Los Angeles trend. Not many Southern Californians know that there’s a 97-acre plot of undeveloped hillside property in tony...
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Brown Signs Bills to Alleviate Affordable Housing Shortage; Mum on Population...
Senate Pro Tem President Kevin de Leon Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and others at Hunter’s Point, an impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood Sacramento legislator hopes to transform over the next...
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World Population Review: California’s Population ‘Simply Huge’
The World Population Review (WPR) recently released its latest California analysis. A few takeaways and forecasts the study made follow. Some facts are well-known to demographers, but other...
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