Archive Report
Archive Report
Rising Pressure for a National Policy
Proposals for Policy to Discourage Added Growth
A “GREAT DEBATE” is shaping up on the questions of whether, when and how the United States should act to try to bring its population growth to a halt. The catch phrase of the debate is “zero population growth,” or ZPG. It means that births, in combination with net immigration, would not exceed deaths in the nation. The issues implied by ZPG are sharpening at this time because the United States is moving, for the first time in its history, toward establishing an official policy on national population growth.
The Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, a blue-ribbon panel with mandates from both the President and Congress, has declared that a national ...