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POPULATION–ENVIRONMENT BALANCE
BALANCE ACTION ALERT
Will Demography be Destiny? Consider the Population Reference Bureau [PRB] Projection:
BALANCE does not put much stock in the PRB projection that world population will ever reach over 9 billion. A projection is not a prediction; it’s just a statistical exercise in carrying current trends into the future. That said, one projection is especially concerning — that the USA’s population is on trend to grow by 62 Million in a mere 32 years, with virtually all of that growth coming from immigration (at least 3/4 of which currently is legal immigration). Also of Great Concern are the Trends from already overpopulated Nations, which will increase the efforts of their citizens to escape to the USA. For example, the fastest growth is in various African countries. That growth depends on the rest of the world’s willingness to rescue Africa from the famines and epidemics that are being brought on by that regions own explosive population growth. How long will the rest of the world (and especially the USA) be willing to share their own dwindling resources to the extent required for repeated rescues and increasing immigration?? In this connection, it is important to recall the studies by Dr. Anne Brittain, which demonstrate that liberal immigration policies of countries like the USA actually increase birth rates in sending countries, and thus exacerbate their Overpopulation Problems, as well as the USA's. Thus it is absolutely critical for the future environmental and economic health of the USA that we dramatically reduce legal immigration — now running at about 1.6 Million per Year — by enacting an all-categories included Zero Net MORATORIUM. By Zero Net Moratorium, BALANCE means that the same number would be admitted each year as the number which voluntarily leave — about 150,000 per year. Limiting Immigration to that annual number would dramatically reduce the very substantial environmental and economic costs Consider this summary of Environmental and Economic Costs: LEGAL IMMIGRATION COSTS & CONSEQUENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES “For every Person added to U.S. (or California's) Population, one Acre of precious Farmland or Natural Habitat is lost to Developed Uses” (e.g., Malls, Urban Sprawl, Tract Housing) (Pimentel et al, Cornell). SPECIES EXTINCTION United States “Top 10 U.S. Endangered Species”, Center for Biological Diversity: As the human population grows we are crowding out, poisoning and eating all other species into extinction. With the world population hitting 7.6 billion, the Center is marking this milestone by releasing a list of species in the United States facing extinction caused by the growing human population. The 10 species represent a range of geography, as well as species diversity—but all are critically threatened by the effects of human population. Some, like the Florida panther and Mississippi gopher frog, are rapidly losing habitat as the human population expands. Others are seeing their habitat dangerously altered — like the small flowering sandplain gerardia in New England — or, like the bluefin tuna, are buckling under the weight of massive overfishing. (Control of Fisheries is one reason China is creating Militarized Islands to control the South China Sea.) U.S. Taxpayers Costs — $330 BILLION PER YEAR NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay) from legal immigration alone, i.e., $3.3 TRILLION prospectively for the next Decade (see full study of NET Costs at carryingcapacity.org) Does NOT include Net COSTS to States and Localities = $758 MILLION per Year for Each Congressional District. That is, it costs on average $1000 per person in Federal Taxes per year! 62% of Costs for “free” (i.e., U.S. Taxpayer-funded) Health Care, & Welfare [The Numbers of Illegal Immigrants are about one fourth that of legal and generate about one-fourth the costs.] EMPLOYMENT CONSEQUENCES Professor Computer Science, U.C. Davis, Norm Matloff Blog “Vast Majority of H1B and related visa hires are Cheap Labor Hires”, i.e., there are American Workers who would do those jobs. Confirmed by Williams / CCN Study — 5.9 MILLION AMERICANS DISPLACED from JOBS SINCE 2005 by IMMIGRANT WORKERS. See carryingcapacity.org. ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Population Growth usually increases Aggregate GDP but ALWAYS DECREASES PER CAPITA GDP—the True Test of Nations’ Wealth. Compare Bangladesh and New Zealand with same size GDP BUT Bangladesh has 4 times the Population and thus is much poorer per capita. The inverse relationship between population growth and individual wealth is seen in the U.S. Since the Clinton Administration, an additional 44 million immigrants has arrived in the U.S. and the U.S. per Capita GDP has declined since the Clinton administration [Williams study at carryingcapacity.org]. PERSONAL SAFETY ENVIRONMENT “Help me, Dad.” Kate Steinle’s dying words impel all of us to redouble our efforts to oppose Sanctuary Cities, Reduce Legal and Stop Illegal Immigration with inter alia a Wall. The Boston Bombers, San Bernardino Shooters and ISIS Truck Driver who ran down Pedestrians and Cyclists in New York City were all Legal Immigrants! Solution: The U.S.A. needs a Zero-Net Moratorium applying to all immigrant categories, i.e., 150,000/year arrivals and 150,000/year leaving. So please help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS to intensity our push for the aforementioned all-categories included Zero-NET MORATORIUM TODAY, NOW! Contact your representatives! IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IS BEING CONSIDERED NOW! And September 30 is the Deadline to pass a Budget. Emphasize that a Zero-Net Moratorium would save $$One-Half Trillion in the next Decade. So CONTACT & RECONTACT Your Representatives! TO MAXIMIZE BALANCE's CLOUT PLEASE DONATE NOW! BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Dollar for Dollar, Donations to BALANCE and its Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout for reduction in immigration number than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups, i.e., those who refuse to push for an all-categories-included Zero-Net Moratorium. Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104 Or support our CrowdFunding effort at Mass Immigration Hurts Environment. The Next Few Days are Critical! Thank you, Population-Environment Balance "When the population of a species grows beyond the capacity of its environment to sustain it, it reduces that capacity below the original level, ensuring an eventual population crash. "Extinction is the most serious, utterly irreversible effect of unsustainable human population." Follow BALANCE on Twitter @PEnvirons and GAB @PopEnvironmentBalance Mailing address: Washington, DC address: BALANCE is anti-Mass-Immigration, not anti-immigrant.
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