Thread: Environmentalist: Immigration Is ‘Driving’ Destruction Of American Farmland

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Environmentalist: Immigration Is ‘Driving’ Destruction Of American Farmland

​ANDREW FOLLETT
Energy and Science Reporter
12:31 PM 04/22/2017

Immigration is a major driving force behind environmental destruction, according to an old school environmentalist who heads up an anti-immigration group.

The group, Numbers USA, contends immigration puts more pressure on natural resources, further exacerbating many long-term environmental problems.

“One of the issues that Numbers USA is most concerned about is the way that immigration is driving so much destruction of the environment and farmland in this country,” Roy Beck, CEO of Numbers USA, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“The two big reasons we fight to bring immigration numbers are to protect the vulnerable American workers and the open space and natural habitat and farmland of the American people. We’re protecting them from explosive population growth caused by immigration,” Beck said.

Beck stands apart from many of today’s prominent environmental groups on the immigration issue.

The Sierra Club once argued “all of our environmental successes may be short-lived if they do not include efforts to address population growth.”

The environmental group’s official policy until 1996 was that both birth rates and immigration levels needed to sharply decline to stabilize the U.S. population.

Now, the Sierra Club has come out against President Donald Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, and the group supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. The club lost members in 2013 when it came out as pro-immigration.

“A real focus on immigration solutions would include humane, sensible measures to address the root causes of migration,” the Sierra Club’s Dan Mills said in a statement on news Attorney General Jeff Sessions would tour the border in April.

“Instead, the Trump administration, and Mr. Sessions, are set on throwing good taxpayer money after bad on a boondoggle of a wall that will only cause greater harm to families and wildlife along the border, while failing as immigration policy,” Mills said.

Beck, on the other hand, blames population growth, including immigration, for “the vast majority of the loss of natural habitat in America.”

“The Census Bureau data shows that the majority of immigrants live in suburbs and the outer edges of cities.

They very much drive the need for more roads, more schools, more everything,” Beck said.

Since, U.S. population growth is mainly driven by immigration, Beck thinks ignoring that issue on Earth Day could doom the environmental movement.

“Pew projections suggest that over 100 million people will be added to the U.S. population over the next 50 years,” Beck said. “Eighty-eight percent of that will be from immigration. Adding 100 million people into the U.S. creates a lot more environment issues and risks ecosystems. That’s a huge Earth Day issue.”

Beck said environmentalists almost universally opposed further immigration in the past. He pointed out that Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, once famously said: “It’s phony to say ‘I’m for the environment but not for limiting immigration.'”

Beck said that changed once prominent environmentalists aligned themselves with liberal groups for political purposes. Now, these groups only oppose population growth from natural native births.

“As long as population growth was being caused by the American people, environmental groups were against it,” Beck said. “But the American people haven’t caused population growth in decades. Immigration policy is the sole cause of long term population growth in the U.S.”

Last year, the Sierra Club’s Austin chapter pulled out of an Earth Day festival in Texas because anti-immigration groups would be in attendance.

“We consider them hate groups,” Reggie James, the director of The Sierra Club’s Texas chapter, told The Austin American-Statesman. “It’s Earth Day; it’s not This-Side-of-the-Border Day.”

“An awful lot of environmental groups don’t have the environment as their most important concern anymore,” Beck said. “So you have things like The Sierra Club advocating for amnesty for illegals in 2013. It was strange for The Sierra Club to take a stand on rapid increases in population in the U.S. The founders of the Sierra Club would be disturbed by that.”

“I’m a person who has a lot of interest in environmental issues and was one of the nation’s first environmental newspaper reporters back in the 1960s,” Beck said. “I can tell you that it was an essential part of the environmental movement back then. Almost every environmental group pushed it.”

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“The Census Bureau data shows that the majority of immigrants live in suburbs and the outer edges of cities.
They very much drive the need for more roads, more schools, more everything,” Beck said.

Just last week on my local news, they had a story regarding the need for new schools here due to the population explosion in southern Hillsborough county (Tampa area). They showed clips of housing developments. Florida, especially the central, southern half and coastal areas, is becoming very crowded.

They intend to fill this country up with overbreeders for more consumers. Will be less open land, more of man, less of creature. That is the globalists plan - EU has the migrants they opened their borders to. Hamlets of 100 people now have 1000 migrants living with them.

Wait till there is no clean water and even more pollution to produce food, remove sewage. Cars, buses, roads everywhere.

The Sierra club was told decades ago to stop talking @ overpopulation or lose their donation from a high $$$ donor. You also have the likes of soros and many very rich people, zuckerberg, buffet; they all want to fill us up with cheap labor and screw Americans and their life style - they really need more money! They need to be called what they are, UN-AMERICAN.

The snowflakes just can't seem to put it together - open borders - free baby booms on welfare - population overkill - yet they claim to be concerned @ the environment. They are concerned @ a border wall for the creatures but not @ the continuing migration of baby producers which will take habitat areas away from our wildlife.

We do not need to keep bringing more people here. Stop it all and no more foreign students until our education department is overhauled!

We have to think of our natural disasters as well. Drought, tornadoes, hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, fires, volcanos and floods.

Massive destruction of cities caused by mother nature.

We need to update our electrical, sewer, dams and water systems.

NO MORE PEOPLE!!!

WE ARE 20 TRILLION IN DEBT...we need to pay that off...not borrow more money to pay for refugees, asylum and illegal aliens!!!

Originally Posted by Scott-in-FL

Just last week on my local news, they had a story regarding the need for new schools here due to the population explosion in southern Hillsborough county (Tampa area). They showed clips of housing developments. Florida, especially the central, southern half and coastal areas, is becoming very crowded.

Unfortunately that very same thing is happening in a lot of places throughout our country.