By Jeremy Beck
After entering via legal and illegal means, people around the world come to the United States and tend to adopt the consumer habits typical of most Americans. Immigration policy drives almost all U.S. population growth. Illegal immigration now outpaces legal immigration by roughly 2-to-1. The credibility of the legal limits set by Congress has long … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The human population of the world has reached 8 billion people. Due to our affluence, population growth in the United States has a far greater impact than growth in other nations, and we are already running an ecological deficit. The biosphere was not on the ballot on November 8th. Calls to increase immigration in the … Continued
Legendary wilderness warrior, rewilding pioneer, and NumbersUSA friend Dave Foreman died this past September 19 at the age of 75 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, succumbing to an illness called interstitial lung disease. With his death, Mother Earth lost a diehard defender and the United States a formidable fighter for rational population and immigration policies cognizant … Continued
Around the world, those of us who have, for half a century and more, questioned and challenged the reining dogma of “growthmania” — the widespread delusion that infinite population and economic growth is possible in a finite ecosphere — are in mourning. It is as if, as Herman’s longtime colleague and admirer William E. Rees … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
The Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Control (MCIR) claims that President Biden’s border policies, which allow record-breaking mass migrations, are negatively impacting the environment. The group has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, State Department, and Department of Justice, saying that the government is out of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Polling done for the release of our national study found that “sizeable majorities of Americans feel strongly about the need to protect farmland and natural habitats for themselves, for their fellow Americans, for posterity, and for the nation’s wildlife.” “Large majorities also indicated it was important to have ready access to natural areas and open … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
“About every five feet, there was a body….it was the Hunger Games.” – Life in America’s National Parks, 2022 Three out of every four Americans feel an “emotional or spiritual uplift” from spending time in natural areas, and 85 percent of Americans say it is important to be able to access them. From our study: … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
America’s growing population is leading to the unilateral loss of farmland to make way for housing, office parks, shopping plazas, and more. The looming paradox is that as development consumes farmland to accommodate more people, the demand for food also grows. America’s capacity to provide basic resources (water, food, fiber) to its citizens is on … Continued
By Jeremy Beck
Americans are living more densely, on average, than we were 20 years ago, but we’ve paved over the equivalent of more than five Yellowstone National Parks – or roughly eleven-and-a-half million acres during that same period of time. Some of that loss was due to regional differences in land consumption per person; a majority of … Continued
