{"id":1425,"date":"2019-04-23T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2019-04-23T08:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T08:23:20","slug":"earth-day-founder-had-strong-immigration-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Founder Had Strong Immigration Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earth Day Founder Had Strong Immigration Message<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by Dan Murray, Immigration Watch \u2013 April 20, 2019<\/p>\n

http:\/\/immigrationwatchcanada.org\/2019\/04\/20\/14098\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Most people who celebrate Earth Day know little, if anything, about the person who founded Earth Day which is celebrated every April 22. Here are seven key points about the founder and his reasons for elevating the Environment to the level of one of the highest of all public concerns.<\/p>\n

(1) Earth Day was founded in 1970 by the late Gaylord Nelson (1916-2005). Nelson was a Wisconsin State Senator (1946-1959), Governor of Wisconsin (1959-1962) and a U.S. Democratic Senator (1962-1981). Long inspired by Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal, he started Wisconsin\u2019s Outdoor Recreation Action Program (ORAP), a wildly popular 1961 proposal for Wisconsin land purchase and conservation. By 1981, ORAP had spent $93 million for land conservation, wildlife management, recreation, and pollution control that would benefit all constituents and public uses. The innovative ORAP program set a new standard for natural resource planning, and established Nelson as a national environmental leader in the U.S.<\/p>\n

(2) Gaylord Nelson was a giant among environmentalists. \u201cRefusing to accept the notion that economic prosperity is at odds with environmental protection, Nelson pushed programs like Operation Mainstream, which appropriated millions of dollars for the creation of conservation jobs and skills training for the poor and the elderly under the Green Thumb project.\u201d His Earth Day was a watershed moment for environmental politics, kicking off what is now termed the \u201cEnvironmental Decade\u201d (1970\u2019s) of radical legislative reforms. \u201cAfter struggling to pass legislation through the 1960s, Nelson was\u2026deeply involved in many of the most important (pieces of) environmental protection legislation: the Clean Water Acts, the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the Federal Pesticides Act, the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Education Act, the National Hiking Trails and the National Scenic Trails Acts\u2026.\u201d See http:\/\/www.nelsonearthday.net\/nelson\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(3) He was a forceful leader in attempting to convince environmental organizations that they could never achieve their long-term goals unless the U.S. achieved population stabilization. He stated that in order for the U.S. to stabilize its population, it had to dramatically cut legal immigration and enforce its laws to stop illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

(4) On Earth Day\u2019s 30th anniversary in 2000, Nelson said : \u201cPopulation, global warming and sustainability would be my suggestions for the three most urgent environmental challenges\u2026. Stabilizing U.S. population is a challenge that could be resolved in a relatively short period resulting in significant economic and environmental benefits. At the current rate of population growth, the population of the US will (rise)\u2026 to some 530 million within the next 65 to 70 years. If that happens, the negative consequences will be substantial if not, indeed, disastrous. To stabilize our population would require a dramatic reduction in our immigration rate\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

(5) \u201cThe hard fact is that while the population is booming here and round the world, the resource base that sustains the economy is rapidly dwindling. It is not just a problem in faraway lands, it is an urgent, indeed, a critical problem here at home right now. We are talking about deforestation, aquifer depletion, air pollution, water pollution, and depletion of fisheries, urbanization of farmland, soil erosion and much more\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

(6) \u201cThe bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become\u2026. We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population. It can be done. But in this country, it\u2019s phony to say \u2018I\u2019m for the environment but not for limiting immigration.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n

(7) To those economists whose only concern is maximizing GDP, thereby disregarding environmental concerns, Nelson would thunder that, \u201cThese people refuse to recognize that the economy is the wholly owned subsidiary of the environment.\u201d If the environment collapses, so will the economy which depends on it.<\/p>\n

All over the world, most environmental organizations, media and governments will celebrate Earth Day, but they will seldom mention Gaylord Nelson\u2019s name or the very important reasons he had for establishing Earth Day.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Foolish Trudeau and his mindless \u201cDiversity\u201d supporters should take special note.<\/p>\n

COMMENT<\/p>\n

Please take note of Item #6 above: \u201cThe United Nations, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population.\u201d Now the United Nation\u2019s have taken an opposite stand in its Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration <\/em>otherwise known as the UN Immigration Pact. A total of 164 countries out of 193 UN members approved the agreement by acclamation December 10, 2018. That equates to 85% in favour. Among the 29 countries who did not sign were Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and the United States.\u201d https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4747488\/un-migration-pact-signed\/<\/a>\u00a0 Russ Cooper of Candian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms wrote this summary about the compact on November 22, 2018.<\/p>\n