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Author: Gray Griffin

How Much Immigration is too Much?

DAVID FRUM-THE ATLANTIC-APRIL 2019 ISSUE I. The Wave That’s Still Building Through much of the 20th century, the United States received comparatively few immigrants. In the 60 years from 1915 until 1975, nearly a human lifetime, the United States admitted fewer immigrants than arrived, legally and illegally, in the single decade of the 1990s. If you grew up in the 1950s, the 1960s, or even the 1970s,...

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‘Replacement Theory,’ a Racist, Sexist Doctrine, Spreads in Far-Right Circles

By Nellie Bowles, The New York Times, March 18, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — Before the massacre of 50 people in New Zealand mosques last week, the suspect released a document called “The Great Replacement.” The first sentence was: “It’s the birthrates.” He repeated it three times. If the phrase about replacement sounded familiar, perhaps that was because it echoed what white supremacists bearing tiki torches...

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How to reach a sustainable human population

By Andrew Freeman | For The Salt Lake Tribune “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” — Genesis 1:28, KJV This scripture was written around the sixth century BCE, when an estimated 150 million...

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Will the world RUN OUT of people?

Book claims global population will start to decline in 30 years despite UN predictions – and says once it does ‘it will never end’ There are 7.7 billion people living on Earth, expected to climb to 9 billion by 2050 Book says population will start to drop in roughly 30 years and steadily decline Authors say improvements in women’s education worldwide will have big impact This...

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What goes up: are predictions of a population crisis wrong?

Changing fertility rates challenge dystopian visions and UN projections about the future of our overcrowded planet Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, The Guardian Sun 27 Jan 2019 06.00 EST Last modified on Tue 29 Jan 2019 05.48 EST She is a well-educated, professional woman, working in an office tower in central Nairobi, Kenya. Because of her status and education, the price required to marry her...

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