The Booth
The general nature of SEPS booths is best appreciated in the Photos section. They contain graphical displays of past demographic history of the U.S. and projections for the future based on different immigration scenarios, as well as past and projected global population trends. Booths also display and give away more than one hundred articles, charts and books on demographic trends, existing and proposed population policies, population-environment issues, ecological economics, and suppression of discussion of national population policies by scientific and environmental organizations, as well as by other U.S. institutions, including Congress, the mainline media, and universities. Books are generally given away on the final day of each meeting.
As the first exhibitor booth on population issues ever seen by most meeting attendees, SEPS booths attract a great deal of attention. During the course of a multi-day meeting, the booth is the site of dozens spirited discussions on a wide variety of population-related issues. By the end of a typical meeting it has given away 4-6 dozen books and many thousand of other pieces of literature..
Here are some of the books often in our display:
- Re-Charting America's Future, 1994, Roy Beck
- Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, 2009, Lester Brown
- How Many Is Too Many? The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration Into the United States, 2015, Philip Cafaro
- Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation, 2013, Philip Cafaro & Eileen Crist (eds)
- Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change, 1982, William Catton Jr.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World, 2013, Paul Collier
- Scarcity – Humanity's Final Chapter?, 2012, Christopher O. Clugston
- An Introduction to Ecological Economics, 1997, R.Costanza, J. Cumberland, H. Daly, R. Goodland, & R. Norgaard
- Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution, 2013, Brian Czech & Herman Daly
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, 1997, Herman Daly
- Enough is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources, 2013, Rob Dietz & Dan O'Neill
- The Betrayal of Science and Reason, 1996, Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich
- Ethics for a Finite World, 2005, Herschel Elliott
- Better Not Bigger, 1999, Eben Fodor
- Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, 2011, Dave Foreman
- Immigration Reform and America's Unchosen Future, 2008, Otis Graham
- Elephants in the Volkswagen: Facing the Tough Questions about Our Overcrowded Country, 1992, Lindsey Grant (ed.).
- Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet, 1996, Lindsey Grant
- Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos, 1993, Garrett Hardin
- Mandatory Motherhood: The True Meaning of Right to Life, 1997, Garrett Hardin
- AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment, 2000, Paul Harrison & Fred Pearce
- The Population Fix: Breaking America's Addiction to Population Growth, 2006, Edward Hartman
- Facing the Population Challenge: Wisdom from the Elders, 2014, Marilyn Hempel (ed.)
- The State and The Stork: The Population Debate and Population Policy Making in U.S. History, 2012, Derek Hoff
- Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families, 1997, Bill McKibben
- 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, 2012, Jorgen Randers
- Move Upstreeam: A Call to Solve Overpopulation, 2015, Karen Shragg
- Tragedy in Mouse Utopia: An Ecological Commentary on Human Utopia, 2006, John R. Vallentyne
- Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, 2013, Alan Weisman
- Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life, 2016, E. O. Wilson
And here are some articles and other items often available our booth. The particular set brought to any given meeting changes according to the nature of the society, whether SEPS has exhibited at its meetings before, changes in the political scene, and our ongoing discovery of new materials.
NOTE: pdfs of many of these can be found online or obtained by contacting info@populationstabilization.org
- Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment, 1995, Kenneth Arrow et al.
- The real inconvenient truth, Randy Alcorn, 2010
- Planet and population, David Attenborough, 2011
- The meaning of sustainability, Albert Bartlett, 2012
- The environmental movement's retreat from advocating U.S. population stabilization (1970-1998): A first draft of history, Roy Beck & Leon Kolankiewicz , 2000
- Climate ethics and population policy, Philip Cafaro, 2012
- The legitimate role of advocacy in environmental education, Karen Cairns, 2002
- Going downhill: forget GDP. American's quality of life has been in recession since 1975, Robert Costanza, 2008
- Top 10 policies for a steady state economy, Herman Daly, 2013
- Overpopulation and the collapse of civilization, Paul Ehrlich, 2013
- An end to population growth: Why family planning is key to a sustainable future, Robert Engelman, 2011
- Seven principles of true comprehensive immigration reform, FAIR, 2010
- Overpopulation and overconsumption: Where should we focus? Michael Hanauer, 2013
- Human numbers – the alpha factor affecting the future of wild salmon, G. Hartman, T. Northcote & J. Cederholm, 2001
- Can the world really set aside half of the planet for wildlife?, Tony Hiss, 2014
- Population and the American predicament: The case against complacency, John Holdren, 1973
- The meaning of sustainability: biogeophysical aspects, J. Holdren, G. Daily & P. Ehrlich, 1995
- A symposium and a lake in multiple contexts: A prefatory essay on Salton Sea science and politics, Stuart Hurlbert, 2011
- Critical need for modification of U.S. population policy, Stuart Hurlbert, 2013
- Historic trajectory of U.S. population 1930-2012, Stuart Hurlbert & Gretchen Pfaff, 2012
- Exploding Southwest population on a collision course with water scarcity, Leon Kolankiewicz, 2013
- Which presidents fought for America's environment? And which fought against it?, Leon Kolankiewicz, 2015
- A new world of refugee ethics, Richard Lamm, 2015
- Economic abundance with shrinking population: Why not?, Nathan Lewis, 2014
- Human population increase, economic growth, and fish conservation: Collision course or savvy stewardship, K. Limburg, R. Hughes, D. Jackson & B. Czech, 2011
- How and why journalists avoid the population-environment connection, Michael Maher, 1997
- Human population control: The missing agenda, G. Meffe, A. Ehrlich & D. Ehrenfeld, 1993
- Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individuals, Paul Murtaugh & Michael Schlax, 2009
- An introduction to the nation's family planning program, NFPRHA, 2013
- Drought, population growth, and big-ag: California's future looks bleak, Melanie Oubre, 2014
- The bioregional consequences of collapse leading to sustainability, Edward Passerini, 2015
- Will limited land, water and energy control human population numbers in the future? David Pimentel et al., 2010
- Bringing sustainability into sharper focus, Population Media Center, 2013
- 2015 World Population Data Sheet, Population Reference Bureau, 2015
- In Israel, population growth is an issue to be avoided at all costs, Zafir Rinat, 2013
- How do we solve the population problem?, William Ryerson, 2012
- The melting pot is broken: How slowing down immigration could help us build a more cohesive and humane society, Reihan Salam, 2014
- Population growth in the United States and Canada: A role for scientists, Peter Salonius, 2005
- American Association for the Advancement of Silence (on national population policies) muffles 'obnoxious' Canadians too. D. Schindler, M. Weld & S. Hurlbert, 201
- Confronting the inevitable: Population reduction, voluntary and otherwise, Kenneth Smail, 2008
- Jared Diamond on Australia's sustainable population, Dick Smith, 2008
- Questioning economic growth, Peter Victor, 2010
- The Central Valley of California: A treasure under siege, John Vinson, 2014
- A post-Cairo paradigm: Both numbers and women matter, Donald Weeden & Charmayne Palomba, 2012
- Feeding the raging monster: How Canada promotes population growth at home and abroad, Madeline Weld, 2012
- Promoting a big Canada: The scientific arguments, M. Weld, T. Murray & D. Schindler, 2013
- High time for a sensible solution to immigration, LingLing Yeh, 2015