Pierre Poilievre keeps saying he wants a “carbon tax election”.
He considers scrapping the carbon tax his most important priority.
This in itself should tell you all you need to know about how unambitious he is and how disappointing a Poilievre government will be.
(Let alone the fact that he will simply replace the carbon tax with subsidies to “green” technologies and carbon capture in order to reach the Paris Accord targets, which he still supports.)
If that’s his priority, how can anyone expect him to adopt any of the bold policies that Canada needs?
He won’t cut back unsustainable spending.
He won’t repeal Trudeau’s laws and abolish Trudeau’s programs.
He won’t stop sending money for foreign wars.
He won’t send to jail the transgender industry monsters who mutilate our kids.
He won’t stop mass immigration and protect Canadian identity.
If he were serious about fixing Canada’s problems, Poilievre would call for a “mass immigration election”, given this is by far the biggest issue we face and it is literally destroying our country.
But he won’t because he’s just Trudeau lite.
Lavone, the whole country is fed up with Trudeau and yes, realistically, yes, it’s almost guaranteed that Poilievre will be the next prime minister.
But that makes it even more important for the People’s Party to have strong showing at the next election.
There must be a credible populist and patriotic opposition to the next Conservative government, not just a collection of globalist and socialist parties.
We must be there to keep Poilievre on his toes and offer a real alternative when Canadians are inevitably disappointed.
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – General George S. Patton
Do not be fooled by climate change hysteria and politicians promoting “green energy”. There is no practical alternative to oil and natural gas.Joseph Lawson Why is the concept of “Green Energy” bring imposed on us ?In attempting to deal with the perceived climate change problem, it has been fashionable among the political left to advocate for a reduction in the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas and to “transition” to other so-called “greener” sources of energy. There is just one problem with so-called Green Energy, which is that it does not work. It is a fraud that is being hoisted upon us. The politicians do not know what to do, so they came up with this narrative. Critical observers should look a little further.
The major issue with the Paris Climate accord, overlooked by the Green lobby, is that the so called “developed countries” are suppose to pay for the “less developed countries”, in order to help them clean up. The latter category apparently includes China and India, which are currently accelerating their development, output and their consumption of coal, in order to meet their economic objectives. This occurs at the same time that China is becoming increasingly belligerent towards the West.
The cheapest and most readily available source of relatively clean energy, which has powered much of the world throughout the last 100 years is petroleum, however we are living in world that is going into global petroleum production decline (reference: celebrated geologist, Marion King Hubbert, in his paper to the 1956 meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in San Antonio, Texas). Production decline will pose a serious problem, especially when there are billions of people in the third world who aspire to North American standards of living. For a politician to tell his electoral base that its standard of life aspirations will never be met, because cheap energy will no longer be available, is not a winning approach to getting elected, or to remaining in office, so the politicians have to make up another story. Geologist M. King Hubbert explains “Peak Oil” in 1976.source file location: https://consumingtheearth.com/2014/08/18/the-peak-oil-problem/So what is the real problem with the environment? The REAL environmental problem is actually a global crisis of overpopulation and over-consumption that is impacting the environment, while pitting the advanced developed nations against the developing world. The resulting situation may become very, very, ugly as the world sinks into global petroleum production decline and resources become more expensive.
The concept of so-called “green energy” or “alternative energy” has actually been around for a long time. An initiative was made to implement green energy, in order to reduce North American dependence upon imported oil, during the energy crises of the late 1970s and in the 1980s. If green energy actually provided the desired benefits, our entire economy would be running on it by now. So why did it not take off a generation ago? (hint : because it does not work ! – at least it does not work very well)…
THERE IS NO SUSTITUTE FOR PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS – PERIOD. What can Canada do in the short term to improve its economic situation ? Canada has sufficient oil and gas resources and reserves to provide for its national energy self sufficiency. A problem is that Canada has its western petroleum resources mostly land locked in Alberta and Saskatchewan, while eastern Canada, where most of the demand is located, buys imported oil that is delivered from places like Saudi Arabia, in tanker ships, and refined in places like Dartmouth, St. John and Montreal.
In order for Canada to be energy self-sufficient in terms of its ongoing energy consumption it needs an efficient way to transport its oil from Alberta to other areas of the country. The construction of pipelines would fulfill this objective. The current Federal government opposes pipeline construction.
about their DEI initiatives blatantly excluding and allocating taxpayers’ money away from White people. I used their own “DEI Action Plan” report to ask him how does this not cause “marginalization” by the paper’s own definition. He replied by saying, “If you’re feeling marginalized as a White guy in this society, I don’t actually understand you.. I think we’re living in a different reality.” Yes, we are living in a different reality. The importation of millions of recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, has exacerbated a cost of living crisis, with White people being displaced economically, culturally, and ethnically. Siscoe talks about all the White people on Council that he apparently wants less of, while poor disenfranchised White people are living in Tent Cities right outside the building. The fact that he seemingly cannot even comprehend the idea of discrimination against White people further proves that they are not a protected group. We are living in a different reality when he has perpetual activists pulling at his pant leg, while they ridicule and sneer at anyone with an opposing opinion. Hardly inclusive, but this is part of how they maintain control. Oppose them every chance you get. Show up. Speak your mind. Don’t be discouraged when they ridicule you. Come prepared, and have fun! It feels good to stand up for your people! #cdnpoli#StCatharines#ProtestMania#WhiteLivesMatter — Son of Plaid
Balkaran Singh ‘created and procured fraudulent documents for clients of his immigration consultancy’: agency
A Winnipeg man who worked as an immigration consultant has pleaded guilty to misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, after he created fraudulent documents as part of his consultancy, the Canada Border Service Agency says.
Balkaran Singh, 45, was working as a regulated Canadian immigration consultant when he sparked the suspicion of the Canada Border Service Agency in January 2021, the federal agency said in a Friday news release.
That month, he went to the Emerson, Man., border crossing to obtain work permits for three non-citizens accompanying him, telling border officers he offered all three jobs at a gurdwara — a Sikh holy place of worship — near Winnipeg, the agency said.
The officers denied the work permits due to multiple concerns and indicators, according to the release, and referred the case to the border service agency’s criminal investigations section.
In December 2023, the investigators executed a warrant to search Singh’s home and place of business, as well as a gurdwara. They took a computer, multiple cellphones and physical documents as evidence, the border services agency said.
The investigation determined that Singh did not adhere to the conditions set out in several employment offers at the gurdwara and that he had created and procured fraudulent documents for clients of his immigration consultancy, the border services agency said.
)Singh was charged in February under a section of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that makes it a criminal offence to knowingly counsel a person to misrepresent or withhold information that could interfere with enforcement of that act.
He pleaded guilty on Oct. 2 to one count of counselling misrepresentation.
He was sentenced to two years less a day of house arrest, which includes a prohibition on providing immigration advice, a curfew and an order to complete 200 hours of community service. He was also fined $50,000. (CBC News, October 7, 2024)
Peter Bradley • Friday, October 4, 2024 • 2,500 Words
Written in 1973, The Camp of the Saints describes the end of the white world through mass Third World invasion. The book was controversial when published, but rereading it today is even more jarring. The dire things author Jean Raspail portrays are coming true and can be seen every day throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and nearly every corner of the West.
The Camp of the Saints tracks the fictional journey of a million Indians from the slums of Calcutta to France aboard leaky, old boats. The West must decide how to respond. The novel is mostly about whites. The invaders are the backstory of how all elements of white society seem to have lost the ability to defend themselves despite having more than enough power to do so.
The title is taken from a Bible verse depicting the apocalypse:
“And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them. . . .” (English Standard Version, Rev. 20:7-10)
The invasion starts when the Belgian consulate in Calcutta informs a crowd that they are not accepting any more Indian babies for adoption in Europe. Seemingly driven by an innate force, mobs of poor Indians storm old rustbuckets sitting idle in the port. The India Star and Calcutta Star are the two main vessels, but there are many others. Soon, there are a million Indians sailing toward Europe — with a handful of white leftists and religious leaders onboard to assist them.
They are met with only token opposition by European officials in India, but there are still many deaths as the mob tramples helpless victims, and numerous corpses are left floating in the water. Their complete indifference to human life and suffering — including of their own people — is a theme that Raspail returns to throughout the book.
In France and throughout the white world, the “Last Chance Armada,” as it is called by the press, is almost universally celebrated. Slogans and virtue signaling in favor of the invaders are combined with ritual denunciations of any whites who dare to speak out against them.
Raspail describes a popular magazine series on Indian culture written in support of the armada. “Considering all the wonders that the Ganges had bestowed on us already — sacred music, theater, dance, yoga, mysticism, arts and crafts, jewelry, new style in dress — the burning question, by the end of the issue, was how we could manage to do without these folk any longer!”
Celebrities write songs such as “The Ballad of Man’s Last Chance” and hold art exhibits with the theme “Our Guests from the Ganges.” The winning entry in a contest to raise funds for the armada is the following slogan: “There are no more Hindus, no more Frenchmen. Only Man, and that’s all that matters!” Banners announce, “WE’RE ALL FROM THE GANGES NOW!” Graffiti proclaims, “WORKERS, GANGES REFUGEES UNITED FOR FREEDOM!”
The Pope (a Brazilian) uses his Good Friday address to inform listeners that they should “open their hearts, souls, and worldly wealth to all these poor unfortunates whom God has sent knocking at our doors.” He also announces that he will sell all objects of value in the Vatican and give the proceeds to the invaders.
Non-white nations react in quite a different way. When the armada tries to pass through the Suez Canal, the Egyptian military threatens to fire on the ships. Confronted by men who mean business, the armada makes a detour toward the Cape of Good Hope. But this only buys the West some time.
There is opposition to the invasion, but it is sporadic and unorganized. The right-wing editor of a small-circulation newspaper warns whites about what is in store if the refugees are allowed to land. A Belgian official shoots some of them as they storm the ships in Calcutta before he is trampled to death. A retired French literature professor unloads his shotgun on an obnoxious leftist who has journeyed to the coast to welcome the invaders. When an armada ship sinks, the captain of a Greek vessel plows through the drowning survivors rather than rescue them.
As the landing draws nearer, many French — including the ones who voiced the most support for the armada — simply flee the country. With no one in charge, chaos ensues, and criminals are freed from prisons. White leftists start gathering near the coast. They drink, take drugs, and lounge in now-empty houses and loot from abandoned stores. All the institutions of French society are shown to be weak, hypocritical, and hollow.
The president of France, despite his public pronouncements, is scared of the armada. As it approaches, he prepares a speech that will order the military to turn back the ships. Yet his will breaks during the address and he simply orders every man to follow his conscience.
Church leadership comes off the worst of all French institutions. Raspail, who remained a Catholic his entire life, portrays them as non-believers who preach a distorted “social gospel” version of Christianity. The Pope and other church leaders actively support the invaders. Priests deliver sermons instructing their parishes to accept and welcome them. Many suffer gruesome endings — including a bishop who accompanies the armada and is simply left behind to drown when they land.
The military is shown as cowardly. Some units do deploy along the coast, but most soldiers flee rather than fire on the armada. A handful remain true to France, especially an old-school paratrooper who battles against both the invaders and their leftist fellow travelers.
The media, unions, academics, students, and celebrities are shown as corrupt and trendy, though ready to direct intense hatred at anyone who defends France.
The business class is represented by a manager at a pork processing plant. Looking to take advantage of cheap labor, he is slaughtered like a pig by African workers and turned into a can of pate.
This factory owner in Springfield, Ohio is the face of evil.
Throughout the interview, he shits on locals, mocks their drug addictions, and hopes for even more Haitians to flood the town. pic.twitter.com/OHKqbii9sC
A childless couple — Marcel and Josiane — represent the middle class. They are concerned by the armada but feel better after watching television programs and reading newspapers that assure them all will be fine. They end up meekly offering their nice apartment to an Arab family with several children.
There were non-whites in France in 1973, though not nearly as many as today. Raspail’s fictional non-whites do menial jobs while biding their time until the armada arrives. One of them, a dark-skinned Moroccan named Clement Dio, is a main cheerleader of the armada. A well-known columnist, he has a barely concealed resentment of whites — though he enjoys living among the wealthy elites of French society.
They arrive
The armada lands in a small seaside town on the southern coast of France on Easter Sunday. Though some shots are fired by the remaining troops, they barely make a dent in the mass of Indians swarming the beach. Most of the soldiers run away before the mob rather than continue fighting. A group of elderly monks are trampled as are many of the whites who had come to welcome the Ganges refugees.
The final defenders of the white world are a group of 20 men who form the camp of the saints. Most are soldiers but they are joined by others, including the French professor who shot the leftist, the Greek ship captain who has escaped from prison, and the right-wing editor who tried to warn his readers. One of their number includes a Hindu who, knowing how his people truly are, wants to defend Western civilization. They give a good account of themselves, killing 312 invaders and 66 fellow travelers, before being bombed by French fighter jets. The same military that would not fire on the invaders kills the last defenders of France — and Europe.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister facing 6 years in prison for blocking illegal migrant boat from entering nation.
Emboldened by the refusal of the whites to defend themselves, non-whites from the entire world set out for white nations. Chinese swarm the Soviet Union with only one drunken Russian soldier firing a shot. Africans descend on South Africa. Australia, the United States, and the rest of the white world are consumed in a matter of months.
BREAKING NOW
Hundreds of Moroccan migrants gathered at the Ceuta border to enter Spain.
The remaining whites do not enjoy the universal brotherhood that they were promised. Whites must share their houses with non-whites. White women are kept as forced prostitutes for the new masters of Europe. Many commit suicide as a result. Eventually, whites are not allowed to marry or reproduce with other whites. The Queen of England is forced to have her son marry a Pakistani.
Leftist supporters of the invasion are not spared, and Raspail arranges well-deserved endings for many of the worst characters in his book. Clement Dio is trampled by new arrivals who do not know or care that he was their champion against whites. His equally leftist Eurasian wife is gang-raped by criminals and kills herself as a result. The whites who initially accompanied the armada are strangled and thrown overboard. The buffoon who came up with the “There are no more Hindus, No more Frenchmen” slogan is killed while trying to flee the invasion as are several of the celebrities who most vocally supported the armada.
The last holdout for whites is Switzerland, which stubbornly closes its borders and even deports its non-whites. We find out in the closing pages that the author has holed up in the country while writing the elegy for his race. But even Switzerland eventually caves to international pressure and will open up in a few hours. So ends the white world.
While often dismissed as a racist work by the Left, The Camp of The Saints was published by a mainstream publisher (Editions Robert Laffont) and was well-received in France where it was reviewed by mainstream outlets. Francois Mitterrand, the French president from 1985 to 1995, was said to have read the book as did many prominent French politicians and writers. As of 2006, it had sold more than 500,000 copies, and it even returned to the French bestseller list in 2011.
The Camp of the Saints was published in English by Scribner’s and reviewed favorably in the US by intellectuals such as Max Lerner and Sidney Hook. Ronald Reagan was said to have been “terribly impressed with it.” Prof. Jeffrey Hart gave it a positive review in the September 26, 1975, issue of National Review:
Most people . . . are able to perceive that the “other group” looks rather different and lives rather differently from their own. Such “racist” or “ethnocentric” feelings are undoubtedly healthy, and involve merely a preference for one’s own kind. Indeed — and Raspail hammers away at this point throughout his novel — no group can long survive unless it does “prefer itself.” . . . The liberal rote anathema on “racism” is in effect a poisonous assault upon Western self-preference.
William F. Buckley, Jr., praisedThe Camp of the Saints in a 2004 column (although he gets some of the details wrong). National Review carried an article on the prescience of the book in 2014, though writer Mackubin Thomas Owens offered the usual conservative dodge: “Of course, Raspail was denounced as a racist, and his emphasis on the white race can indeed be off-putting. But the central issue of the novel is not race but culture and political principles.”
Who was Jean Raspail?
Jean Raspail was a well-known travel writer prior to the publication of The Camp of The Saints. He was the recipient of prestigious French literary awards such as Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de Littérature by the Académie Française. The French government appointed him to its Legion of Honor in 2003. His death in 2020, a few weeks shy of his 95th birthday, was noted in a NewYork Times obituary. While awash in terms such as “far-right” and “white supremacist,” the Times obit noted his influence on a new generation of writers, including Renaud Camus, who coined the term “the great replacement” for what is happening to Europeans.
Marine Le Pen tweeted the following tribute to Mr. Raspail upon his death:
Jean Raspail nous a quittés. C’est une immense perte pour la famille nationale.
Il faut (re)lire Le Camp des Saints qui, au-delà d’évoquer avec une plume talentueuse les périls migratoires, avait, bien avant Soumission, décrit impitoyablement la soumission de nos élites. MLP
“We must reread The Camp of the Saints, which, beyond evoking with a talented pen the migratory perils, had—long before [Michel Houellebecq’s] Submission—mercilessly described the submission of our elites.”
Jean Raspail seemed aware of his legacy. Shortly before his death, he explained to the New YorkTimes: “People now buy The Camp of the Saints because they want to read the book written by the writer who saw what would happen before everybody else.”
The Camp of the Saints has long held a special place for the Dissident Right and among white advocates in particular. It marks one of the few times a book promoting our worldview has reached a mainstream audience.
The first English-language version of The Camp of the Saints came out in 1975. In the inaugural issue (December 1975) of Instauration, Wilmot Robertson reviewed the book, calling it “a ghastly, shuddering, mind-reeling scenario of what is in store for the West if liberalism and apathy continue to weaken our will to survive.” He praised it as the “first great uncompromising novel of modern times.”
The late Chris Roberts wrote a review for American Renaissance in 2017 where he compares the book to 1984:
George Orwell’s 1984 helped the world understand the last century’s crisis: the struggle between totalitarianism and freedom. Jean Raspail’s novel tackles this century’s crisis: whether the white world can survive the Third World’s demographic tidal wave. That crisis is upon us now — in its early stages — and like Jean Raspail, we do not know how the story will end. But The Camp of the Saints begs us to wake up.
Raspail was pessimistic about the ability of Europe to turn back the clock on the Third World invasion. But he believed rediscovering our identity was the only way to do so:
There are only two ways to deal with immigrants. Either we accommodate them, and France — her culture, her civilization — will be eradicated without so much as a funeral. In my view, that is what is going to happen. Or else we do not accommodate them at all, which means we stop sanctifying the Other and rediscover our neighbors.
The cost of “accommodating them” can be seen every day across the white world. The Camp of the Saints is no longer fiction.
The current “migration” situation resembles something out of a horror movie. Eldritch creatures from the deep emerging out of the fog to lay waste to our civilization. A literal plague of death and destruction wrought by vengeful graspers and violent thugs from the third world. https://t.co/cZJ7m34zZQ
Ireland is being invaded. Immigrants are being bused into small towns, changing the very fabric of Irish culture. This is a form of demographic warfare, and it’s happening across Europe.@KeithWoodsYT@TheLaurenChenpic.twitter.com/v90DCTRrNh
I’m getting reports from locals that they have spotted busses full of migrants being dropped off in Tunkhannock, PA. I can personally confirm that I’ve seen parking lots full of them at the local park near Tunkhannock. Tunkhannock is a small rural town in PA that is 94.5% White. pic.twitter.com/rpjXjpMONs
POLITICIANS and FIRST NATIONS CHIEFS & BAND COUNCIL MEMBERS REMUNERATION The City of Thompson, Manitoba with 13,446 residents pay their Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Council Members at total of $80,474.45 annually for taxable salaries and per diems (the Mayor’s annual indemnity is $29,745.45 per annum, Council Members are paid $9,915.15 per annum and the Deputy Mayor gets $11,068.40 per annum).That seems fair
….NOW THIS …. which is SO DISTURBING.
Brokenhead Ojibway Nation with a registered population of 1,918 are paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $415,357 in TAX-FREE salaries and per diems PLUS $1,557,766 in tobacco and fuel tax rebates.
Long Plains First Nation @ Portage La Prairie with a registered population of 813 paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $539,918 in tax-free salaries and per diems.
Little Grand Rapids First Nation with a registered population of 1,590 are paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $706,182 in tax-free salaries and per diems.
Buffalo Point First Nation with a registered population of 126 are paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $300,000 in tax-free salaries and per diems.
Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation in Ontario with a registered on-reserve population of 293 people paid their FN Chief and Band Council $267,799 in tax-free salaries, never mind the $58,930 in tax-free expenses.
Mathias Colomb First Nation with a registered population of 3,192 are paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $601,726 in tax-free salaries and per diems.
Samson Cree First Nation with a registered population of 8,059 are paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $2,149,998 in tax-free salaries andper diems ($266.78 per capita).F
Fort McKay First Nation with a registered population of 827 (It’s not a typo, it’s 827) paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $2,067,098 in tax-free salaries and per diems, never mind the $151,428 in travel expenses ($2,499.51 per capita). Chief Jim Boucher was paid an annual tax-free salary of$644,441 tax-free ($53,703 per month) and tax-free expenses of $35,359 ($2,947 per month) as well as tax-free other remuneration $25,000 ($2,083 per month) ohhh and tax-free travel expenses of $60,157 ($5,013 per month)!!!!! YES … PER MONTH!!!
Enoch Cree First Nation with a registered population of 2,469 are paying their FN Chief and Band Council Members a total of $1,159,707 in tax-free salaries and per diems never mind $84,030 in travel expenses ($503.74 per capita). They’re also paying their Board of Directors $1,511,457 in tax-free salaries and tax-free expenses.
No wonder there is so much poverty with many of OUR First Nations and Metis Brothers and Sisters …. NO Water in some places, INADEQUATE and DEPLAPATED housing, NO health Facilities, etc.
The money can’t seem to get past the Chiefs and Council Members in a lot of cases!
If mass immigration slowly destroys democracy, there is only one sustainable course of action. Sustainable immigration requires: Reducing legal immigration and Stopping illegal immigration.What limits – if any – will the next administration seek? I’m Rob Harding with Jeremy Beck. Welcome to the Sustainable Immigration Newsletter! Today, we are remembering the late physicist Albert Bartlett’s warning: “we are allowing our immigration driven population growth to slowly destroy democracy at home in the U.S.” But first… NumbersUSA in Greater Yellowstone Scientific Director Leon Kolankiewicz and CEO James Massa were in Big Sky, Montana earlier this month to unveil our Greater Yellowstone Sprawl Study at the 16th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The scientific study analyzes how sprawl – fueled largely by population growth, including growth from immigration – is transforming the ecological function of Greater Yellowstone, America’s most iconic wildlife-rich ecosystem. Presentation of the study’s findings was well-received and local media took notice. After the conference, the study’s release received a prominent introduction in the newsletter of Yellowstonian, the Livingston, Montana based conservation journalism organization co-founded by eminent environmental journalist and author Todd Wilkinson.
Leon (center) and James (right) in conversation with Todd Wilkinson (left), Big Sky MT
“In a few generations,” Henry Barbaro writes, “an individual’s ‘voice’ has become a mere whisper” in the halls of Congress. In 1900, there was one U.S. representative for every 197,000 people. Today, the representation ratio has dropped to one for every 772,000 people. This is what Bartlett was talking about. Mass immigration drives U.S. population growth in an unsustainable direction. Henry continues:“Having the will of voters diluted in such a way can lead to voter apathy — a lack of interest among voters to participate in elections. In other words, a sense of disconnection and a belief that one’s vote doesn’t matter, which leads to low voter turnouts and less participation in other types of civic responsibilities. This creeping indifference towards the electoral process undermines the very foundation of democracy.”
And yet, our individual “whispers” echo through the halls of power when we take action together. When we eschew indifference and embrace the audacity of Democracy, our voices carry a thunderous message.
NumbersUSA Board Member Philip Cafaro co-authored an excellent response to a recent discussion paper titled Migration in Hotter Times: Humanity at Risk. The response effectively outlines a series of benchmark arguments against sentimentalist, globalist support for continued mass immigration.
“Does the responsibility developed countries carry for greenhouse gases oblige them to take in any migrant affected by climate change?” ask Cafaro and co-author Jane O’Sullivan.
The authors’ cautionary answer: “Forcing countries to accept more immigrants than they can sustainably absorb, or their citizens want, would mean the end of national sovereignty, representative democracy and any functional social contract. Strong welfare systems only persist where population growth is low and social cohesion is high.”
Read the articles and tell us what you think.
Advice for Trump and Harris
We cannot say how Professor Bartlett, who died eleven years ago this month, would respond to President Trump’s claim that we need to import more workers to do American work. But we suspect he would have urged the former president to “think about this for a moment”:“If a country has to import people to do the work of the country, then that country is not sustainable.”
“We have all heard the plaintive cry,” said Bartlett, “that ‘We can’t get Americans to do the work, so we have to import workers from other countries.’ Think about this for a moment. This is an absolute indicator of national unsustainability!”
A better approach for Trump would be to reclaim his well-stated position from his 2018 State of the Union Address:“The United States is a compassionate nation. We are proud that we do more than any other country to help the needy, the struggling, and the underprivileged all over the world. But as President of the United States, my highest loyalty, my greatest compassion, and my constant concern is for America’s children, America’s struggling workers, and America’s forgotten communities. I want our youth to grow up to achieve great things. I want our poor to have their chance to rise.”
As for Vice President Harris, Dr. Karen Shragg applauds her instinct to decry anti-immigrant sentiment, but says that alone is not enough:“She must address our nation’s voters and say, ‘Of course we don’t hate immigrants, we are a nation of immigrants, but we are at a different time in our history. We are no longer dominated by amber waves of grain, we are full of over 366 million Americans and can no longer fool ourselves that we can accommodate mass immigration, much of it illegal, because of how it will hurt most Americans. There are complicated reasons for the fuel behind the desires of migrants to come to our shores. Unsustainable growth in many countries is certainly one of them. Blaming the US history of exploitation of global resources as the only reason for the misery and suffering of those at our borders is no excuse to dissolve the sociological and ecological integrity within our sovereign borders, dashing the hopes and dreams of our own citizens.’”
EarthX recorded presentations now available on demand
You may recall seeing in May’s newsletter that our sustainable immigration outreach and education efforts got an energizing boost from EarthX’s Congress of Conferences in Dallas, Texas, where NumbersUSA and America’s immigration-driven population growth problem were on the agenda. Formal panels and on-stage presentations provided an avenue to disseminate our unique studies concerning the drivers and impacts of urban sprawl in America (for example, our Colorado study continues to inform the housing debate in Denver).
Leon presenting on the EarthxTV Stage, Dallas TX
View Scientific Director Leon Kolankiewicz’s presentation here. View ally Dr. Karen Shragg’s presentation here.
The big picture: too many people are consuming too much
In Losing Our Minds, conservationist Brad Meiklejohn asks:”Fifty years ago, the brightest minds in the United States were deeply concerned that 210 million Americans were too many and that 280 million would be “much too many.” Now that we total 335 million Americans, the titans of Silicon Valley claim that we are running out of people. ”How did we lose our minds so quickly?”
Meiklejohn observes that “very few prominent public intellectuals these days…have the courage to assert that 335 million Americans is “much too many”, and that a declining population might be a good, easing, dawning opportunity.”
Indeed. Now remember that federal immigration policy is the overwhelming driver of America’s current population growth, and federal immigration policy is projected to drive nearly all future population growth. Therefore, confronting unsustainable growth at its source requires reducing immigration to a level America can sustain.
In The Unbearable Anthropocentrism of Our World in Data, freelance journalist and author Chris Ketcham makes the case that “there’s no room for the wild things when humans, cows, chickens, pigs, dogs and cats crowd out everything else, so that 96 percent of mammalian biomass now consists of Homo sapiens and our domesticated animals.”
Ketcham shares a statistic that hits home: “Ninety-nine percent of the tallgrass prairie in North America, once the largest such ecosystem on Earth, has been wiped out.”
Will continuing to add 3.5 million people a year to America’s population through immigration make our conservation challenges easier to confront or harder?
In the age of limits, a sensible immigration policy means less immigration.
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