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Obama White House Urges Higher Immigration to Boost Sagging U.S. Population Growth

Published on April 14th, 2013

The Obama Administration has just announced that, in effect, it advocates more U.S. population growth now and forever.  The administration may just as well have proclaimed its support for Ponzi schemes or perpetual motion machines.  At least then it might have jolted intellectually indolent, somnolent environmentalists from their golden slumbers. As it is, this utterly preposterous pronouncement went unnoticed and uncommented on by those well-funded sanctimonious saints supposedly struggling to save our environment.

A March 20, 2013 fact sheet issued by the Obama White House on the “economics of immigration reform” declares that, “with slowing population growth and aging of the workforce, America needs more workers.”

Read the fact sheet here.

Note that the fact sheet does not say America needs more workers for six months, or a year, or three years, or a decade, or for a generation until those aging baby boomers die off and quit collecting Social Security en masse.  Rather, the implication is that we need a growing population and workforce – as well as even more immigrants than already record levels, to stoke this growth – forever more.  Even a million immigrants per year is not enough to please the gods of growth and those who worship at their altar.

Because America’s native population growth appears to be slowing down ever so slightly due to dipping fertility rates – what I would like to believe is a tentative, positive step toward the goal of U.S. population stabilization (when it is more likely a fleeting consequence of the Great Recession) – we have to goose this growth by inviting in still more immigrants.  And because those immigrants themselves will eventually age and retire someday, and need to be supported in their own turn, in the future we’ll have to pull in still more immigrants, or encourage Americans to have bigger families once again.  In other words, under Obama’s short-sighted, ecologically ignorant prescription, America is doomed to perpetual population growth, at least until it collapses under its own weight.

Note too that the fact sheet is entitled the “economics of immigration reform,” not the “ecology of immigration reform.”  Those who favor mass immigration and the massive population growth it inevitably entails, are conspicuously silent about the environmental implications of this growth.  They ignore it entirely, and cynical environmental leaders are complicit in this conspiracy of silence.

In pandering to vested interests in the business, ethnic, and mass immigration advocacy communities, previous administrations have largely ignored or downplayed the negative implications of excessive immigration levels for population growth.

Not content with this, and confident (with good reason) that environmental leaders will not rock the progressive boat, the Obama White House is now asserting forcefully not just that higher population growth may be an unfortunate but tolerable side-effect of the mass immigration imperative, but that population growth in and of itself is good and necessary.

What it boils down to is this:  America needs population growth for the sake of economic growth, again, presumably forever.  Ergo, since American women are opting for somewhat smaller families insufficient to satisfy the demands of the growth machine (ever more producers, ever more consumers, ad nauseam) we need immigration to bolster population growth.  And we needn’t say a word about how environmentally unsustainable this is because even the acknowledged leaders of the established environmental community itself can be counted on to toe the party line.  If they don’t toe the party line, they will be banished from the fold and sent off the reservation to languish in exile beyond the fringe.

Perpetual population growth!  This is indeed environmental heresy and scientific madness.  But what else can “with slowing population growth and aging of the workforce, America needs more workers” possibly mean?  That environmentalists aren’t raising hell about this is yet another sign that they have sold their souls.

Under administrations as diverse as those of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, various presidential commissions and task forces issued findings on the importance of stabilizing U.S. population.  The Population and Consumption Task Force of Bill Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development even wrote in 1996 that:  “This is a sensitive issue, but reducing immigration levels is a necessary part of population stabilization and the drive toward sustainability.”

Now, in calling for endless population growth, and ignoring entirely its environmental consequences and adverse implications for sustainability, the Obama White House is shamelessly repudiating the findings of its various predecessors.

Obama may prattle on about the importance of promoting renewable energy sources and combatting climate change – and I agree wholeheartedly – but out of the other side of his mouth, he is pushing population growth.  This growth will undermine and thwart any progress American might make on the renewable energy and climate issues.

And the environmental establishment continues with its Faustian bargain to see nothing and say nothing.  Nothing to see here; move along…

 

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