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California Water Woes and National Border Policies Squeeze an Endangered Species

California’s Example In the midst of ongoing drought, the state is facing a stark choice right now: Watch “uncaptured” rain water flow away naturally, or reroute the water for agriculture and cities and extinguish a unique genetic code from the face of the Earth. Delta smelt. The once-abundant species is viewed as a proxy for … Continued

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A Tale of Two Secretaries

Worker power, loose borders: pick one (hat tip, Oren Cass) WORKER POWER LOOSE BORDERS Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich (on Substack): “Here’s the truth: There is no labor shortage. There is, however, a shortage of jobs paying sufficient wages to attract workers to fill job openings.” Current U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh (in Davos): “One … Continued

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Adding up the ecological costs of the immigration crisis

Limits to immigration are necessary to enable us to meet our ecological, environmental, and conservation goals. From a practical standpoint, there is very little difference between having no immigration limits and having unenforced immigration limits. Contact Congress Hundreds of millions of people around the world would like to come to the U.S. and consume like … Continued

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The Border Crisis is part of a Consumption Crisis

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

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No Apocalyptic Predictions Necessary. The Present is Enough

The legacy media is full of expansionist narratives built on the shaky foundation of Ponzi Demography, and the cracks are showing. The expanding human enterprise is contributing to the sixth mass extinction in the U.S. and around the world. The loss and destruction of critical habitat needs no Cassandra to prophecy where our current trajectory … Continued

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Hope for 2023

Hope for the 6.5 million more Americans who would be working today if the Labor Force Participation Rate was as high as it was in the year 2000. Hope for the homeless, 40 percent of whom are Black, whose resources have been diverted to accommodate the record wave of illegal immigration. Hope for the world’s … Continued

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Growth like this dashes any hope of Biden’s “30 by 30” plan becoming a reality

Federal Conservation and Population Policies At Odds “WILDLIFE IS DISAPPEARING around the world,” The New York Times reports. “Humans are taking over too much of the planet, erasing what was there before…” Habitat corridors across the American landscape are being extinguished. Good faith efforts to save them can only hope to mitigate the loss if … Continued

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Congress Negates Americans’ Sacrifices

Millions of Americans limit their personal consumption to conserve natural resources. But there is a movement afoot to ask Americans to sacrifice not for nature’s sake, but in order to pack more people into the country, the states, cities and towns. We are being asked to conserve more individually so we can consume more collectively. … Continued

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Loury: “Is Immigration Good for African Americans?”

Some of us took time over Thanksgiving to invoke our ancestors who came to these shores generations ago. For many, our relatives established themselves here during The Great Wave of Immigration. We honor their struggles. We celebrate their perseverance through adversity. We give thanks – for them and for their migration to the land we … Continued

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