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May 2007
IMMIGRATION BILLS INCREASE GLOBAL WARMING THREAT,
WARNS EMINENT PHYSICIST!
EACH PERSON ADDED TO U.S. POPULATION GENERATES
23.8 TONS OF GREENHOUSE GASSES EACH YEAR!
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NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Dr Albert Bartlett
EMBARGOED UNTIL Phone: (303) 443-0595
WEDNESDAY - MAY 23, 2007 Email: Albert.Bartlett@colorado.edu
To the extent that pending Immigration Bills would increase the
United States' population, they would increase the Global Warming
Threat says the renowned physicist, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett.
Dr. Bartlett, a member of The Board of Advisors of BALANCE, Harvard
Ph.D. and currently a Professor Emeritus of Physics stated in
a May 2007 article that according to a recent study, "each
year each person in the United States is responsible, directly
or indirectly, for emission of 23.8 TONS of greenhouse gasses!"
"So if we are serious about reduction of U.S. emission of
greenhouse gasses in the hope of slowing or stopping global warming,
then it is imperative that the first thing we do is to stop the
U.S. population growth."
Dr. Bartlett emphasized that since "...Immigration (most
of it is legal) is estimated to account for something like three
quarters of the present annual increase in the U.S. population,"
it is essential that"...we do everything possible to halt
U.S. population growth quickly...The largest contributor by far
to U.S. population growth is immigration, legal and illegal."
U.S. population growth "Violates the Laws of Sustainability"
which include:
- "Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption
of resources cannot be sustained."
- "The larger the population and/or the larger the rate of
consumption of resources, the more difficult it will be to transform
the population to the condition of sustainability,"
- "A society which has to import people to do its daily work
is not sustainable."
Even the nation's birth rate is higher than it would
be without mass immigration. According to the Center for Immigration
Studies, immigration's annual contribution to population growth
reaches nearly 90 percent if one adds in the children born to
recent immigrants.
Dr. Bartlett stressed that, no matter how much effort we put into
improving efficiencies in the use of energy, etc., continued mmigration
into the U.S. means continued U.S. population growth, which in
turn means increasing annual emissions of global warming greenhouse
gases by the population of the United States.
"If there is no end to population growth in the U.S., it
is unlikely that there will ever be a decrease in the annual emissions
of global warming greenhouse gases by the United States."
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