Category Archives: Immigration

When Did We Stop Worrying About Population Growth?

Anthropocene, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environment, Food Supply, Immigration, Inequality, Nature, Neo-Malthusians, Opinion, Population growth, Sustainability, Technology
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In the environmental debates of the 1970s, one common name hurled at environmentalists was to call them “neo-Malthusians.”   This dismissive insult was meant to imply that the concern for environmental issues was nothing more than the contemporary application of the failed analysis of Thomas Malthus (1766-1834).  Malthus was a classical economist in the tradition of […]

Immigrants in My Family

Family, Gratitude, Immigration, Inequality, Justice, Maine, Opinion, Refugees, Trump, Values
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The new administration in Washington continues to limit immigration to the U.S.A. with policies questioning the suitability of people from various countries to become Americans.  This made me think of immigrants in my own family. In 1913 my grandfather, William Oliver Anderson, immigrated to Massachusetts from Glasgow, Scotland.  He made a career in the shade-grown […]