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Why this issue is important both to Sierra Club members as well as to everyone in the US. |
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Read this important article, The Environmental Movement's Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization |
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A short summary of the 1998 ballot question position. |
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What actually happened in the 1998 Club election. |
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Don't unplanned pregnancies account for U.S. population growth? |
Some organizations like ZPG (now Population Connection) try to draw attention away from the issue of mass immigration by saying that "unplanned pregnancies" and "population momentum" are the primary causes of unending U.S. population growth. This disinformation is most decidedly incorrect. |
Only population growth is forcing overall use of energy to increase. |
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Our government continues to force us to accept millions and millions of new citizens. Our media colludes with this policy by minimizing impartial debate and withholding an enormous amount of information about what is happening to this nation due to our immigration laws. |
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The Sierra Club's Board of Directors took the non-environmental path. |
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By its de facto support of present high levels of immigration the Sierra Club has chosen to ignore disadvantaged Americans in favor of immigrants, many of whom are not disadvantaged at all. |
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Link to article by Jason DinAlt. This article thoroughly documents the impact of mass immigration, from the ten countries that send the most immigrants to America. |
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Link to article by Carlyn E. Orians and Marina Skumanich, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A study identifying overpopulation as the underlying cause of our environmental problems, and the need for a more proactive and preventive environmental policy rather than just treating the symptoms. |
"We have this strange addiction to unending growth, and that will not work on a finite planet." |
The President's Council on Sustainable Development Task Force on Population and Consumption stated, "Reducing immigration levels is a necessary part of population stabilization and the drive toward sustainability." |
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"This is an environmental issue... Somehow, if we love our earth - yes, even the earth of this, our own country, where we live (not some abstraction from far away) ... we can take a stand." |
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The Wilderness Society took the sound environmental position and its membership increased. |
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"It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest." |
"As long as our
numbers continue to increase, any gains we might make by improving technology
and reducing wasteful consumption will be eroded..." |
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