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Growth Pummels North and South Carolina

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Wed, Dec 16th 2020 @ 9:14 am EST  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth and U.S. population growth is driving sprawl. The southern Piedmont is one place where rapid population growth is clearly evident. One Piedmont town, Lake Wylie, South Carolina, has tripled its population since 2000 and town residents are starting to say "enough."
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Vanishing Elbow Room and Breathing Space: Crowds Flee to Northern Rockies from Packed, "Pandemicked" Cities

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Tue, Dec 1st 2020 @ 10:50 am EST  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Life imitates art in in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, as U.S. population growth driven by immigration fuels rapid in-migration to the region. More people seek to escape densely settled urban areas, threatening vital wildlife habitats.
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In the Western Wildfires Blame Game, Nobody Mentions Population: Well, Almost Nobody, Some Smart Scientists Do.

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Tue, Sep 22nd 2020 @ 10:52 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
As fires raged out West this summer, there was plenty of finger-pointing about who or what was to blame. The public heard very little about one major factor: rapid population growth in wooded habitats of the American West subject to natural fire regime.
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The United States is Not 'Empty'

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Wed, Sep 9th 2020 @ 3:09 pm EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Is the United States "empty" because there's not a billion plus people already living here? Journalist Matthew Yglesias argues that's the case. Not convincingly, but that didn't stop him from writing an entire book on the subject.
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Who Cares About Insects? We All Should If We Care About Nature

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Tue, Apr 7th 2020 @ 8:17 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth, and will continue to account for almost all population growth over the next forty years. We need to think about the effects of growth when we formulate immigration policy. One of the effects is continuing sprawl, and the loss of habitat for wildlife.
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Pandemics and Population: Lessons from the Coronavirus Catastrophe of 2020

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Wed, Apr 8th 2020 @ 11:43 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
With Covid-19 dominating the news and the minds of many of us, NumbersUSA Scientific Director Leon Kolankiewicz has provided a broad personal overview of key global trends that he believes make pandemics a likely occurrence. Not much of this relates directly to immigration policies, yet, there are serious overlapping forces behind pandemics and mass immigration.
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Not Yet a 'Silent Spring,' But a Subdued One

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Wed, Sep 25th 2019 @ 10:47 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz

Fewer flocks and feathers grace our skies, forests, coasts, grasslands, and deserts these days. That's not just a coincidence. As human population increases and millions of acres of natural lands and habitats are permanently altered or lost to development, the survival of our avian neighbors is threatened.

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Population and Immigration Denialism in the Climate Debate

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Mon, Sep 16th 2019 @ 5:42 pm EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
For those who care about the consequences of U.S. carbon emissions, it matters a great deal whether the U.S population remains at 330 million, or is pushed by immigration to more than 400 million by 2060, and more than 500 million (half a billion) by 2100. It also matters that, by settling in the United States, immigrants, on average, increase their carbon emissions by 400 percent over those of their countries of origin.
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The Greatest Threat to Wildlife in General and Endangered Species in Particular Is Not Donald Trump's New Rules

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Tue, Sep 10th 2019 @ 7:22 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
Around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, when there were 130 million fewer Americans than at present, environmental scientists, activists and even politicians were outspoken and unequivocal on the threat posed by a growing U.S. population. Yet neither the Trump administration nor its harshest environmentalist detractors are willing to recognize or resolve the greatest threat to all wildlife in the United States: large-scale habitat loss from incessant U.S. population growth.
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Too Many People, Too Little Sand

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Wed, Aug 21st 2019 @ 10:40 am EDT  by  Leon Kolankiewicz
If you were to poll average Americans as to what the most important natural resource is that sustains contemporary civilization, you’d probably get responses such as oil, soil, or water. And each of these would be good answers. For each of these substances is absolutely crucial in sustaining not just our standard of living but our very survival, as are many other renewable and non-renewable natural resources.
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