by Roy Beck
NumbersUSA s two-decade focus on the relationship between immigration policy and the destruction of natural habitat received a nice national spotlight on this 51st Earth Day.
Real Clear Policy, the articles part of the
Real Clear Politics news and polling aggregator, published my oped today and gave it the title Meeting Earth Day s Promise Means Reducing Immigration.
When I covered the inaugural Earth Day teach-ins as a reporter 51 years ago, one of the top concerns was the rapidly growing U.S. population and its negative impact on America s wildlife and ecosystems.
. . . Environmental leaders such as Senator Gaylord Nelson often dubbed the Father of Earth Day called for the United States to model population stabilization for the rest of the world, as well as modeling ways to reduce negative per capita impacts.