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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:12 am Post subject: Reducing Immigration Would Lower Carbon Emissions
FAIR Legislative Update - July 06, 2009
New FAIR Report Shows Reducing Immigration Would Lower Carbon Emissions
A new report released last week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) shows that immigration-fueled population growth has been the single largest contributing factor to the increase in U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 35 years. Authored by FAIR's Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, the report comes just days after the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (See FAIR's Press Release, July 1, 2009).
According to the report (entitled Immigration, Energy, and the Environment), Americans actually achieved more than a nine percent reduction in per capita energy consumption between 1973 and 2007. During that same time period, however, the U.S. population increased nearly 70 percent, with more than 31 percent of that increase directly attributable to legal immigration alone. (In addition, the report notes that "the share of population growth attributable to immigration is still higher when illegal immigration and the children born to the immigrants after their arrival are included.") This population increase led to a 33 percent increase in American energy consumption from 1973 to 2007 — an increase that can be attributed primarily to U.S. population growth over that period.
The House of Representatives recently passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, legislation more commonly referred to as "Cap-and-Trade." The bill seeks to, among other things, "cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions," a move that supporters of the legislation suggest would help fight global climate change. However, the bill fails to address the principle cause of the problem it is seeking to solve: immigration generated population growth. (H.R. 2454).
According to Immigration, Energy, and the Environment, "Any effort by the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions must take population growth into account." The report goes on to point out that the central component of an energy policy that deals with population growth "must include an effective and enforceable immigration policy that curbs immigration levels to the point that it is no longer driving U.S. population growth."
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