What a load of crap.
All of this footprint stuff aside, we do have a public policy issue that needs to be discussed, i.e., the impact of legal and illegal immigration on the future population of the US. We are adding in addition to normal births, 1 million legal immigrants and 500,000 to 1 million illegal aliens each year to our population. During the 1990's our population increased by 32 million people. Since the last census in 2000, we have added 20 million people. They all need to be supported by infrastucture and resources, including energy. Do we want to be a nation of 400 to 500 million by 2050?
Because of current immigration policies adopted in 1965, the chain migration impact of the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the senate in 2006, we will add an additional 66 million legal immigrants over the next 20 years.
We are like the proverbial frog that is slowly being boiled to death and doesn't realize it until it is too late. This is not Paul Erlich stuff [The Population Bomb], but rather, hard data based on Bureau of the Census figures.
Glad to see your comment. I thought I was the only one thinking that. You do have to admit it's a creative use of whacko-enviromentalism to support border control.
The loads of crap have to be dumped somewhere...