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Earth Day 2013 – The Paramount Issue of Overpopulation!
As another Earth Day rolls around, a California organization reminds us that population growth is still the fundamental environmental problem.
“The consequences of that growth are all around us–loss of open space, air and water pollution, traffic congestion, and never-ending sprawl,” said Jo Wideman, executive director of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS). “Habitat loss due to population growth is the greatest threat to wildlife.”
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, world population has nearly doubled to 7 billion, and the U.S. population, driven by immigration, has grown from 203 million to 316 million. According to Census Bureau projections, the nation’s population will exceed 420 million by 2060, but that does not include the increase in immigration that would be wrought by the new immigration bill in the Senate.
“It is extremely unfortunate that none of the analysis on the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill has focused on its implications for population growth and the environment,” Wideman said. “The bill provides more visas for legal immigration, and the amnesty will provide incentives for more illegal immigration.”
California has some of the most varied wildlife habitat on earth, boasting more endemic species than any other state, but rapid population growth imperils this extraordinary biodiversity. Over one-fourth of California’s plants are extinct, rare, endangered, or threatened, and over 150 animals are listed as threatened or endangered.
The founder of Earth Day, the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson often drew the links among population, immigration, and the environment. He stated, “In this country, it’s phony to say ‘I’m for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'”
The late David Brower, the Sierra Club’s first executive director and a CAPS Advisory Board member, noted, “Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration… has to be addressed.”
SOURCE Californians for Population Stabilization
8 Comments on "Earth Day 2013 – The Paramount Issue of Overpopulation!"
rollin on Sat, 20th Apr 2013 10:24 pm
Ah, only the Wall Street Journal would publish anti-immigration media under the guise of Earth Day.
fecteau on Sat, 20th Apr 2013 11:55 pm
Actually the biggest population growth is in farm animals as the world move in the wrong direction (higher per capita meat consumption). To save the planet, we should drastically reduce our meat consumption. Mine is 0.
Kenz300 on Sun, 21st Apr 2013 12:17 am
Every problem is made harder to solve with the worlds ever growing population.
Around the world you can pick a crisis. We have a food crisis, a water crisis, a Climate Change crisis, a declining fish stocks crisis, a financial crisis, a JOBS crisis and an over population crisis.
Worst Environmental Problem?
Overpopulation, Experts Say
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418075752.htm
BillT on Sun, 21st Apr 2013 1:26 am
Be patient. Famine and disease are on the way. Maybe even a war or two. That is how Mother Nature settles population problems with life forms that exceed their limits.
BillT on Sun, 21st Apr 2013 1:28 am
Oh, I forgot pestilence, as the insects become immune to the GMO poisons and decimate crops weakened by drought. As climates change, the tropical diseases will move north along with the carriers, like the dengue mosquito.
John Kintree on Sun, 21st Apr 2013 3:01 am
Life does not begin at conception. Life began billions of years ago through asexual reproduction. The DNA in our bodies has been winding and unwinding for billions of years.
Human beings have brains. Zygotes do not have brains. Zygotes are not human beings.
What incentives would make men want to have a vasectomy, assuming they have the balls to do it?
Tony on Sun, 21st Apr 2013 1:30 pm
Amazingingly, most people agree on population growth and immigration. Republicans, Democrats, Peak Oilers, Cornucopians, Atheist, Religious, educated, uneducated – the consensus is that population growth and immigration are nothing to be:
a) worried about
or
b) dealt with
In fact, at the present time, business leaders and politicians alike speak of immigration as part of the solution, not part of the problem. So enjoy the rush hour commute you currently have, as it is the quickest it will ever be during the auto era.
luap on Mon, 22nd Apr 2013 10:59 am
Kenz …you forgot declining bee populations and radiation spewing into the ocean from fukushima