For decades after the Clean Air Act (1970), new emission standards, cleaner fuels and technological innovations brought steady air quality improvements to America’s metro regions. But those gains have since stalled, as population growth, with its traffic expansion and rising energy demands, overwhelms the benefits of air pollution controls.
Each Thanksgiving, we say we’re “going home for the holidays.” But more and more, it feels like we’re running the gauntlet through an endless traffic jam. The culprit? Rampant population growth.
Our nation’s immigration-driven population growth is fueling urban and suburban expansion, which has become the principal factor contributing to deforestation in the United States. As development spreads outward irreplaceable forest functions are lost, leaving communities more vulnerable to flooding, pollution, extreme heat, declining biodiversity and declining quality of life. Unless excessive immigration rates are reduced, urban sprawl and deforestation will continue.
Urban wastewater overflows are caused by different design limitations, but are driven by the same force: immigration-driven population growth.
The proliferation of data centers is increasing human demands for water, electricity and developed land. Growing per capita environmental demands show the need to limit the number of capitas by ending immigration-driven population growth
Pioneering primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall passed away last week at the age of 91. She was a champion of chimpanzees, conservation … and population activism.
Two thirds of Arizona’s population growth between 1982 and 2017 was due to immigration into the state, both internationally and from Californians fleeing crowding and the high the cost of living.
With human demands on nature continuing to increase, the future looks grim for America’s butterflies, and for our nation’s biodiversity in general. According to the Census Bureau, the U.S. population is on track to soar to 385 million by 2060, with immigration accounting for almost 90% of that growth. Increased human numbers will drive more and more species off the landscape and toward extinction.
The United States is still home to a rich heritage of biodiversity, including a stunning array of unique and beautiful butterflies. If we hope to bequeath this legacy to our children and grandchildren, Congressional leaders will need to reduce America’s primary, yet discretionary, source of population growth — mass immigration.
It seems reasonable to evaluate the environmental impacts of substantial projects like Alligator Alcatraz — and it’s the law. But a glaring question remains. Why require EIS review of a single immigration holding facility, even a really big one, but not the immigration policies that bring tens of millions of people into our country every decade?
