Over the last four decades Arizona lost more than enough natural habitat and farmland to fill the entire state of Rhode Island. Over 1 million acres of irreplaceable croplands, pasturelands, rangelands, open spaces, and wildlife habitats disappeared, and Arizona continues to lose more than 30 football-fields worth of nature every day.

Only 7 percent of this loss has been due to increasing land consumption per person, while 93 percent has been due to Arizona's unsustainable population growth. Arizonans are living more densely -- less land per person -- today than forty years ago. But population growth negated all the anti-sprawl benefits of that density.

While there are many worthwhile efforts to protect our natural resources and wildlife habitats, including access to open space and nature, they are all being undermined by Congress' unsustainable immigration policies. International migration is directly responsible for nearly half of population growth in Arizona, and is projected to account for nearly all of population growth nationwide over the coming decades.

An ethical immigration policy must consider our responsibility to nature as well as to each other and future generations. Please join the effort to establish responsible immigration limits that are necessary to save the next million acres of Arizona's open space from destruction.



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