Climate Changes Controlled by Immigrants, according to CIS
Imagine your world free of pollution: breathing in fresh, clean air that isn’t thickened with CO2 emissions; experiencing
cold weather in the winter and hot in the summer without the extreme weather
conditions; not worrying about what the rising sea levels and melting glaciers
mean for our country’s agriculture and farming economy.
It’s all possible, and the solution is simple: lower immigration levels
into the United States.
According to a recent
study done by the Center for Immigration Studies, immigration is the cause
for the high CO2 emissions the U.S.
is releasing into the environment.
Move over environmentalists because CIS has solved all our pollution
problems!
Science versus Anti-Immigration
Groups
According to AlterNet.org,
the experts at CIS are claiming that environmentalists are too focused on
energy conservation and have “assiduously avoided the underlying issue of
growing energy demand driven by immigration-fueled population growth.”
Through research, CIS has found that the countries from where the
immigrants come from are less consuming, less industrialized and less
CO2-emitting and that the average immigrant produces 18 percent less CO2 than
the average native-born American; however, the study states that immigrants
living in the United States produce about four times more CO2 than they would
if they stayed in their own countries.
The CIS reports U.S.
immigrants produce an estimated 637 million tons of CO2, which is 482 million
tons more than if people did not move across countries. If we separate the 482
million tons of CO2 emissions caused by people moving into the United States
into its own country, it would rank in the top ten countries producing the most
pollution, according to CIS.
Other groups have teamed up with CIS to blame
immigrants for the environmental problems we face today.
A new full-page advertising
campaign that is running in newspapers and magazines across the country is
asking progressives to help anti-immigration activists save the environment.
Ads depicting bulldozers ripping
up forests and never-ending
traffic jams blame overpopulation, which is allegedly caused for the most part by
unmonitored immigration: “300 million people today, 600 million tomorrow. Think
about it.”
It Doesn’t Take a Scientist
Despite how simple CIS makes it seem, limiting immigration will not solve
our environmental problems. The increasing amount of CO2 emissions is, in part,
caused by increasing populations, but immigration is not the only reason why
our population continues to grow. Even if we close off all our borders, the United States
population would likely continue to grow.
Moreover, the biggest pollutant is our assumption that we can continue to
pollute and consume at the levels that we do.
Critics say that if we follow the logic of the CIS report, it would make
more sense that Americans should immigrate to lower-polluting countries to
reduce emission.
The real truth is that our lifestyle, production and consumption levels
and environmental policies are what determine most of the emission levels, not
illegal or legal immigration.
CIS is not really concerned with the environment but are using the issue
to advertise and exploit their concerns with illegal immigration.
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