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California TV Ad Says Current And Future Immigration Exacerbates Global Warming

Published on October 17th, 2008

Immigrants Produce Four Times More Carbon Emissions in U.S. Than In Their Home Countries

SANTA BARBARA, CA. – Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has launched an ad campaign in California TV markets.  The TV spots point out that when immigrants settle in the U.S., their energy use quickly becomes Americanized. As a result their carbon emissions skyrocket.  The result is a quadrupling of immigrants’ carbon footprints compared to the amount of carbon emissions they produced in their home countries.

CAPS is launching the TV campaign as America faces the largest population increase in its history.  According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau projections, U.S. population will jump from 305 million today to more than 400 million by 2040.  That’s a 33 percent increase yielding an additional 100 million more people in just the next thirty years.  It’s an increase equivalent to adding another entire Western half of the country.  According to Pew Research, 82 percent of that growth will be a result of immigration and births to immigrants.

Diana Hull, President of Californians for Population Stabilization commented, “Imagine taking close to 100 million people with a relatively small carbon footprint and quadrupling their carbon emissions overnight just by moving them to the U.S.   That’s going to significantly impact Global Warming.  Cutting immigration to the U.S. isn’t the only thing we should do to solve the global warming problem, but stopping mass immigration, especially from low carbon use nations will go a long way towards a solution because it is a significant contributor to the problems we face.”

The CAPS TV spot is based on a recent Center for Immigrations Studies (CIS) report about U.S. immigration and carbon emissions.  While the CAPS TV spot is focused more on future carbon emissions, the CIS study looks at current carbon emissions.  Currently, US immigrants produce an estimated 637 million metric tons of CO2 annually or the same amount of carbon emissions currently produced by Great Britain and Sweden, combined.

The spot concludes, “We’ve got some tough choices to make” and then invites viewers to visit CAPS website to “Tell us what you’d do.”

To view the ad please click here.

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