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Author: Henry Barbaro

America’s overshoot is magnified by mass immigration

By Henry Barbaro

Americans have grown increasingly efficient with our use of resources (i.e., our per capita ecological footprint). But we haven’t grown more sustainable  — that is, the U.S. ecological deficit (gap between footprint and biocapacity) has increased — because the amount of natural resources (i.e., our biocapacity) per person has also declined. Why? In part because we have converted them into urbanized areas to accommodate immigration-driven population growth.

Less immigration would save habitat; wildlife

By Henry Barbaro

The most direct and fundamental way to resolve America’s decline in biodiversity is to gradually bring down our high levels of immigration. Habitat loss cannot be stopped as long as immigration (legal and illegal) continues to add roughly three and a half million people every year.

How America’s immigration surge is linked to wetlands loss

By Henry Barbaro

Legal and illegal immigration now amount to the rough equivalent of a new Los Angeles every year – a factor in the loss of 60,000 acres of wetlands every year.

Immigration and the 54th Anniversary of NEPA

By Henry Barbaro

The month of January marks the 54th anniversary of when the modern environmental movement started. In the 1970s major environmental protection initiatives became law starting with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires that all federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.