Selected Books and Articles - John Tanton
Selected Articles
The Mitchell Prize Essay on International Migration by John Tanton, 1975. Dr. Tanton’s 1975 prize-winning essay on the challenges posed by international migration.
Also see the article published as a booklet: End of the Migration Epoch?, by John Tanton. (Order the booklet here).
This article, along with six critical reviews and the author's response, is reprinted from The Social Contract journal. Dr. Tanton asks how much longer massive international migration can go on, and then sets forth a new paradigm and a set of ethical principles to govern migration policy. From the prologue:
Adage tells us that we often 'don't see the forest for the trees.' Nowhere is this more true than in immigration policy the complexity of immigration law or the plight of individual migrants tends to narrow our focus and bog us down in minutiae.
This paper backs away from the details and examines the bigger picture - in the longer run. It explores the three 'pillars' on which the contemporary migration edifice is built population growth engendered by public and personal health measures, better transportation, and better communications. It closes with a new paradigm for under-standing migration phenomena, and with a new set of ethical principles to guide immigration policy in the 21st century.
The short article by Garrett Hardin, Nobody Ever Dies of Overpopulation, illustrates how we deny the fundamental cause of many of our environmental problems.
Common Sense on Mass Immigration is collection of mini-essays in 40-page softcover pocket-sized booklet. These essays serve as a very good introduction to the issue of mass immigration.
Order the booklet here. Or, you can read the essays online.
Selected Books
John and Mary Lou Tanton's biography,
Mary Lou & John Tanton: A Journey into American Conservation by John F. Rohe. It is available for $15.95 from:
Amazon.com,
The Social Contract Bookstore,
and
FAIR.
From the back cover: In the forward to this book, Governor Richard D. Lamm observes two themes: first, it is an insight into how new viewpoints gain a foothold in the world of ideas... and second, it is a lesson on how people from even remote parts of America can assert their ideas by the power of their message, the wisdom of their strategies, and the strength of their personalities.
Raised on family homesteaded farms, Mary Lou and John Tanton developed a love of the land and a sense of place. This affinity for the land eventually led them to the hub of a divisive national controversy involving citizenship, language, culture, family planning, conservation, and American identity. When our successors search for a caring voice in our age, an echo from the Tantons will still be heard.
The Immigration Invasion, by Wayne Lutton and John Tanton, The Social Contract Press, 1994 (softcover, 190 pages).
This book "presages our gathering immigration storm as has no other single publication” says nationally syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer. The book discusses the problems created by U.S. immigration policies, reviews how we got into this predicament, and outlines specific and realistic solutions.