Limit immigration to fight climate change
Arizona’s CO2 emissions keep rising, despite environmentalists’ best efforts to shrink the state’s carbon footprint. Total emissions rose 4.5% in 2018, according to the most recent available data from the federal Energy Information Administration.
The problem isn’t a lack of individual resolve. Arizonans are eating less beef, using more clean energy, and choosing to have smaller families. Americans in general have slashed their per capita carbon footprints 15% since 1990, thanks to such environmentally conscious decisions.
Leon Kolankiewicz
Yet total U.S. carbon emissions have increased over that same period. That’s because the U.S. population has soared 24% in the past three decades, from 250 million in 1990 to about 330 million today. Arizona’s population grew from 3.7 million people to 7.3 million, basically doubling in size.