{"id":695441,"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.com\/index\/695441","title":{"rendered":"Report: Uncontrolled Immigration May Ruin The Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/traffic_1961_19672750_0_0_7017062_300.jpg?w=780\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" 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":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UUN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}