The Miami Herald raised an important question regarding Florida's high rates of population growth and development, taking a reflective look at the state's recent evacuation experience as a result of Hurricane Irma.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) released a report today that shows the harmful impact mass immigration to the U.S. has on the environment. Immigration from overseas to the U.S. increases the world’s overall carbon emissions and reduces the amount of open spaces left in the country
NumbersUSA celebrated 5 years at Earth Day Texas this year. For the first time, the expo was three days long and along with it came bigger and better crowds. Our booth focused on Vanishing Open Spaces in Texas and the entire nation. We educated visitors on projected crop land loss, population growth and how Washington’s immigration policies impact both. The population of Texas grew by 3,500 people during the 3 day festival, the same amount of gum balls in our booth’s jumbo gum ball machine.
NumbersUSA had a booth at Earth Day Texas 2014 in Dallas to help promote the 2014 updated study on Urban Sprawl, "Vanishing Open Spaces". You can download the study here.
I'll be in Dallas at the Texas State Fairgrounds the next few days at the largest Earth Day exposition in the country, presenting our massive new study, VANISHING OPEN SPACES.
The media's failure to grasp the numerical impact of immigration policy inevitably results in its failure to understand other important issues of the day. An Associated Press story on U.S. birth rates is a perfect example. The Associated Press reported: "A rate of a little more than 2 children per woman means each couple is helping keep the population stable." That would be true if we had replacement-level immigration. But we don't. AP left that inconvenient truth out of its story.
A group of forty former world leaders, including President Bill Clinton and South Africa's President Nelson Mandela, have sounded the alarm on population growth and water scarcity, according to Reuters ("Twenty more "Niles" needed to feed growing population - leaders"). The subject is famililar to Clinton who in 1993 established a Council on Sustainable Development. One of the council's objectives was to chart a path towards the stabilization of U.S. population. Among the immigration-related recommendations . . .
Some accuse us of opposition to "progress," if we desire to save beloved places from population growth. Or of impractical nostalgia, if we long for a less-congested America. But has the quality of life been made better by the addition of 100 million people to the U.S. since 1970? Let's give each other glimpses of places we have loved in our lives that really don't exist any more because of massive population growth (most of it driven by national immigration policies).
NumbersUSA again this year is at one of the nation's three largest Earth Day Festivals, at the Texas State Fairgrounds. We are displaying our giant red and green U.S. population chart, as usual. And, as usual, lots of people do some double takes at seeing the population issue raised in the midst of scores of booths about green products, recycling, lower-consumption living, etc. Melanie Oubre and I will be posting a few observations during this 43rd Earth Day.
Here in the U.S. our population problem is driven chiefly by immigration, both documented and undocumented. According to Jeremy Beck of Numbers USA, since 1990 immigration numbers have been higher than in any other period in U.S. history. Over the last two decades, immigration has averaged about 1 million people per year, or three times our historical average. U.S. population will more than double from 203 million in 1970 to 439 million in 2050 and immigration will cause 82 percent of all U.S.
The economist Kenneth Boulding, the environmental adviser to President Kennedy, once famously said, "Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad - or an economist." This is the fourth of four blogs concerning immigration-sustainability questions policymakers should address.
Our call for replacement-level immigration (a reduction in annual numbers by perhaps 80%) has just received a huge boost of validity in a new book -- Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife -- by Dave Foreman. Over the last four decades, few people have been more true and highly-publicized in their championing of the U.S. environment than Foreman. Essentially, he concludes that wildlife in the U.S. face a dismal future without deep cuts in immigration.
Following a pair of recent studies that exposed man-made and climate-caused deterioration at those two iconic American attractions, environmentalists are raising new concerns about the future health of all 58 U.S. national parks in a time marked by barren budgets, rising energy cravings and warming skies.http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38883753/ns/travel-active_travel/
By Bill Briggs -- MSNBC.com Contributor
I'm on my laptop and Shirley is at the wheel as we hurtle up the New Jersey Turnpike to meet our first grandchild. Since 1994, I have given presentations across the country, on video, DVD, internet and TV urging an immigration policy that will allow our country's grandchildren to enjoy the same natural benefits and individual liberty of our nation as we have enjoyed. Always before, I was doing it for other people's grandchildren. Now, I'm also doing it for my own.
It isn’t every day a person gets to sit down and chew the fat with one of their U.S. Senators. So I jumped at the chance to participate in an hour long Q & A session with Michael Bennet, the junior Senator from Colorado, who fielded questions from two dozen environmental activists here in northern Colorado. Senator Bennet considers himself a strong environmentalist and in his first year in the Senate he has earned good marks from the League of Conservation Voters. But his poor grade with NumbersUSA contradicts his commitment to the environment.
The family and fellow ranchers of the murdered Robert Krentz urged the federal government to respond immediately to the dangers along the Arizona/Mexico border. Today, four Members of Congress responded with a simple bill that they believe will greatly increase the safety of Americans living near the border, while improving the health of the natural environment.
Congress can pass all the laws restricting carbon emissions, but none of it will matter until they address our nation's immigration policy. More than 1 million immigrants come into the United States every year adding to our country's carbon footprint. http://ChangeTheNumbers.org
Polls suggest that Americans are quite divided about what the climate change summit in Copenhagen ought to be doing. The big push there is to persuade nations to adopt goals of limiting carbon emissions. Governments such as China and the U.S. are resisting because of various kinds of giant costs. But check out our new interactive website feature that shows how our immigration policy is the single greatest contributor to the growth in the U.S. carbon footprint. . . .
Roy Beck testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 3, 2009 regarding S.424, which would provide green cards for domestic partners. If you're having problems viewing this video, click here.
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I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning on one of many bills proposed to increase green cards and immigration at a time of incredibly high unemployment. My remarks probably could apply to any bill that increases green cards. Members of Congress almost never consider the cumulative cost of all the green cards they decide to hand out. I called on them to put that consideration first.
The conceptual framework used by environmentalists such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. when they fight against pollution applies precisely to illegal immigration. They refuse to embrace the logical conclusion of their ideas because it is not politically correct.
Shirley (my wife) just got a call from her 99-year-old father (every year a Republican) who said Pres. Obama's inaugural speech made him hopeful. As for me, I was relieved that I didn't hear anything that spells trouble for us, and also hopeful because several major principles in his speech are recipes for doing the right thing on immigration -- even if Mr. Obama probably doesn't realize it.
NumbersUSA has thousands of members who are too old to ever enjoy the better American future for which they fight. And, yet, fight they do with all their heart -- none more so than Alan Kuper, 84, of Cleveland. The day before he died of stomach cancer last weekend, he sent out an email to hundreds of his friends calling for more activism in his triple causes of U.S. population stabilization, immigration reduction, and environmental sustainability.
The global population is skyrocketing and depending more and more on the United States to help provide a stable source of food as it has done for over one-hundred years. However, due to America's increasing population (due in large part to out-of-control immigration), the United States is unable to fulfill this role.
