{"id":445717,"date":"2010-03-18T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/report-uncontrolled-immigration-may-ruin-the-environment\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T23:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:01:59","slug":"report-uncontrolled-immigration-may-ruin-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/445717","title":{"rendered":"Report: Uncontrolled Immigration May Ruin The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/traffic_1961_19672750_0_0_7017062_300.jpg\" alt=\"Report: Uncontrolled immigration may ruin the environment\" align=\"right\" \/>A newly released policy brief from Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) contains a warning about the ecological impact of United States population growth.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled <em>From Big to Bigger, How Mass Immigration and Population Growth Have Exacerbated America&#8217;s Ecological Footprint<\/em>, examines the impact that uncontrolled growth and high immigration levels are having on the country&#8217;s natural environment, and provides scientific evidence for why America is exhausting its natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Among its major findings, the article reveals that even as the U.S. ecological footprint continues to increase, the Earth&#8217;s biocapacity is decreasing. Moreover, if current growth trends continue, the American population will increase 43 percent by 2050, and 82 percent of that growth will result from immigration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We are] living well beyond [our] ecological means and rapid population growth driven primarily by high immigration levels is aggravating the country&#8217;s ecological deficit,&#8221; says Leon Kolankiewicz, the publication&#8217;s author who is a wildlife biologist and consulting environmental planner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If environmentalists are serious about facing the challenge of sustainability, they must begin to address the threat of unsustainable U.S. population growth,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that the U.S. has the third-highest ecological footprint in the world, exceeded only by two small Middle Eastern oil-producing countries.<\/p>\n<p>PFIR is a nonprofit organization that seeks to educate the public about the unintended consequences of mass migration and promotes the principles of protecting workers&#8217; rights and ensuring fair wages for America&#8217;s workforce.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19672750\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19672750-ADNFCR\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly released policy brief from Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) contains a warning about the ecological impact of United States population growth. The report, entitled From Big to Bigger, How Mass Immigration and Population Growth Have Exacerbated America&#8217;s Ecological Footprint, examines the impact that uncontrolled growth and high immigration levels are having on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}