Australia to Create 50-Year Immigration Plan
Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship wants to develop a 50-year immigration plan to ensure that future intakes consider a wide range of long-term issues.
Environment
The Wounded Land: New Video Discusses Impact of Immigration on the Environment
President Obama has set multiple guidelines to protect our land for future generations. Somehow the politicians who are most vocal about protecting our environment often do not want to address how current immigration policies are detrimental to this goal. This new video and a short summary video explain how the United States cannot reach its environmental goals unless it stops its policy of forcing large population growth through mass immigration.
Ted Kennedy's Immigration Legacy -- and why did he do it?
I was dining in downtown Boston with a long-time acquaintance of Teddy Kennedy at the very time the Senator died a week ago. We had discussed what had caused Kennedy to pursue immigration policies that so fundamentally changed America. When I awoke the next morning to the Massachusetts TV stations doing their eulogies, I decided to wait until after burial to share my thoughts. . . .
Teaser- Immigration 102: The Wounded Land: The Environment and Open Space
Length: 4 min 24 sec
"The Wounded Land: The Environment and Open Space" explains how the United States' out-of-control immigration policies are hurting America's environment and what will occur if Congress fails to act.
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Our Water Supply, Down the Drain
Droughts make matters worse, but the real problem isn't shrinking water levels. It's population growth. Since California's last major drought ended in 1992, the state's population has surged by a staggering 7 million people. Some 100,000 people move to the Atlanta area every year. Over the next four decades, the country will add 120 million people, the equivalent of one person every 11 seconds.
'Treehugger' Website Wonders if Immigration Should Be Reduced To Help Environment
A recent essay posted on an environmental website at Yale University, YaleGlobal, discusses the touchy subject of immigration's impact on environmentalism. The positions that political liberals take on both issues can often contradict each other.
Moon Landing, Milton Berle, Soup Kitchens and Lost Dreams
Forty years ago this morning, I was visiting with Milton Berle in his hotel room near Grand Rapids, Michigan, sharing our reactions to watching the moon landing in the middle of the night. That evening, we met again over a giant bowl of potato salad at a backyard picnic as Congressman Gerald Ford dipped and recounted his call from Pres. Nixon soon after the moon walk.
Poll Reveals that Progressives Believe High Immigration Hurts America
A new poll conducted by Progressives for Immigration Reform reveals that progressives believe that high immigration levels have negatively impacted the quality of life in the United States. They also believe that high immigration levels negatively impact the environment and hurt American workers.
My Immigration-Linked-To-Environment Testimony Hits Some As 'Loopy' or 'Novel' (but it once was common wisdom)
I did some surfing of the internet and thus far have found that 95% of the blogs and comments (outside of our own website) about my Senate testimony Wednesday suggest I was a little crazy to say that immigration-driven U.S. population growth is an environmental threat. Granted, there really wasn't a lot of attention to the hearing on S. 424, but . . . .
Overpopulation and Over-Immigration Threaten Water Supply, Says Ad Campaign
A Census Bureau report indicates that the U.S. population will rise to 439 million by 2050, or 135 million more than today. More than 80 percent of U.S. population growth will continue to be a direct result of immigration and births to immigrants. In California -- where the population increases by a half million per year -- that immigration component accounts for virtually 100 percent of the growth.
New Nightmare Census Projections Reveal CHAIN MIGRATION Still Choking Our Future
Today, the Census Bureau again revised its U.S. population projection for 2050, giving us the bad news that we are headed to 439 million instead of 420 million. In nearly every measure, our local, state and federal governments can't even provide our current 304 million Americans with adequate infrastructure for a high quality of life in terms of the environment, transportation, public health, education, parks and many other areas, so why do federal officials insist on the immigration policies (particularly Chain Migration) to force us to handle 439 million?
Study: High Immigration Levels Linked to Higher Global Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Environmental Bills Called Pretext to Loosen Border Security
"Open-border advocates operating under the guise of environmentalism are prepared to push for legislation that could result in an accelerated flow of illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and human trafficking from Mexico into Arizona, according to law enforcement experts familiar with the terrain.
The two bills, sponsored by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), would restrict federal and state law enforcement officials from patrolling an already porous border area that extends from Sonora, Mexico into Santa Cruz County, Ariz., critics charge...."
Supreme Court Denies Fence Lawsuit
Treading on a taboo
"Portland's fevered efforts to stave off global warming by reducing carbon dioxide began more than two decades ago. And how much progress have we made? None. Zero. Zilch. Every day we dump more planet-threatening gas into the atmosphere. Why? Because at the same time Portland's metro-area population has grown by 42 percent.
An Environmental Choice
Length: 19 min 56 sec
The environment is being threatened by an increasing population, and immigration is the leading cause of population growth in the United States. An Environmental Choice is hosted by Monique Miller from Wild Earth and interviews with Former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day. This video takes a look at immigration from an environmentalist's perspective and feature's Roy Beck's famous Immigration by the Numbers presentation in which he uses charts and gumballs to illustrate the problems with mass immigration
Why Roy Beck Founded NumbersUSA
I hope you will come to rely on this website to help you influence Congress to turn away from policies forcing a more and more congested and regimented future for our country, our children and our grandchildren.
Population Media Center
Visit the Population Media Center to learn more about actions and ideas that focus on the stabilization of human population numbers http://www.populationmedia.org/index.html
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Third World Growth — California Style
You don't have to take a jet to see Third World growth - just take a look around the entire Sacramento region! California, Sacramento County, Placer County and El Dorado County are unfortunately experiencing the same growth rates as many of the world's poorest and most overpopulated countries. Is that what we want to bequeath to future generations?
Role of U.S. population stabilization at the beginning of the modern environmental movement
The following is based on an article, "The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating US Population Stabilization (1970-1998) "
Environmental endorsements of U.S. population stabilization
Notable environmentalists from a wide array of political affiliations have, over the years, endorsed U.S. population stabilization:
President Clinton's Population and Consumption Task Force
Immigration Numbers Rise -- Environment Suffers
Length: 5 min 55 sec
Environmental Planner, Leon Kolankiewicz, discusses how uncontrolled immigration levels threaten America's environmental stability. He discusses the impact of population growth on greenhouse gas emissions, sprawl, energy consumption and our foreign oil dependency.
Outsmarting Smart Growth: Population Growth, Immigration, and the Problem of Sprawl
To date, almost all efforts to combat sprawl have focused on “Smart Growth” strategies, which primarily seek to create denser settlement by changing land use practices. Our findings indicate this approach will have limited success in saving rural land from development because it fails to address a key reason for sprawl — population growth.
Weighing Sprawl Factors in Large U.S. Cities
Does a growing population contribute to urban sprawl? The relationship between population growth and sprawl appears obvious to some but is denied or minimized by just as many. What has been lacking is a systematic, comprehensive, consistent means of quantifying the role of population growth in sprawl in recent decades. A national study by NumbersUSA, “Weighing Sprawl Factors in Large U.S. Cities” does just that.
Sprawl in Florida
Florida's phenomenal population growth has been the No. 1 factor in the state's urban sprawl, according to the results of this study released during Florida OverPopulation Awareness Week (October 29 - November 4, 2000). In fact, in most Urbanized Areas of Florida, the amount of land per resident did not grow at all, indicating that growth in per capita consumption was not a factor in any of the sprawl in those cities.
