Posted on 03/14/2013 1:44:06 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Los Angeles Times ran a Thursday editorial by Middlebury College Professor Bill McKibben arguing that allowing millions of illegal immigrants into America will reduce global warming.
“I feel it's urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to step out of the shadows and on to a broad path toward citizenship,” wrote McKibben. “It will help, not hurt, our environmental efforts, and potentially in deep and powerful ways.”
McKibben says that while the average American has a larger carbon footprint than a person living in the developing world, bringing more immigrants to America would likely reduce their tendency to have higher birthrates, thereby creating less carbon-producing people.
“It's true that the typical person from a developing nation would produce more carbon once she adopted an American lifestyle,” says McKibben, “but she also probably would have fewer children.”
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What izzit with these people who come from south of the border? The ones in my neighborhood seem to love setting fires in barrels and sit around eating and drinking in the front yard, even during the summer. Is it some kind of cultural thing?.........
Since when do people produce carbon?
This guy doesn’t keep up with the talking points very well. “Glowbull Warming” is sooo 2000. Even Climate Change is being dropped now for Climate Disruption. This guy must be a Climate Dinosaur.
Yeah, it happened about 30 years ago or so when they put full-bore Marxists like Robert Scheer and his wife into positions of real influence on the news side.
It would certainly cut down on global whining.
My head just ‘sploded!
The mental midget leftists have turned American into a sad joke. We are so screwed.
We are losing elections to nutjobs like this!
(giggle, giggle...) Who cares that I lost my (giggle) pills? (ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...) "Coming mother"
(better life through chemistry!!! or without it!! whichever you like) giggle, giggle, giggle
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