Our local Seirra club leader in Northern Colorado also only attacts the
effects of growth. Their main marching-line speaking points are that big
bad builders and governement are building too many buildings and streets,
AND then this causes the people to come here. every single time this guy is
interviewed he says this. The one last week is about building another
reservoir for water. He thinks this will cause more people to come here. I
have news for him, they are already coming and mainly caused by legal and
mostly illegal immigration. Either from people being pushed out from Texas
or CA or coming here directly.

Companies and Governments do not build infrastructure and house if they
don't think the population is growing. If that were the case I could go to
any dead town, buy up all the land for cheap, and start building and wait
for them to come.

I wish the Seirra club would get off their liberal thinking and start using
their great voices for a REAL difference in the enviroment. I love the
outdoors and hate to see them get destroyed just as much as they do, but
current tactic of attacting the effects is just not working.

Gary

"Fred Elbel" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:33:23 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
wrote:

Should environmentalists adopt a two-pronged approach to the problems
you
have raised here? Not only should they be looking at population issues,
but
perhaps they should be looking at management and integration issues as
well.
If the population is really going to double in a hundred years, then
maybe
we should be planning on exactly how and where we can put these people
and
the roads and homes that they will require.

Hi, Jeff:

U.S. population growth is not inevitable. In fact, it can be halted
by Congress returning immigration levels to traditional replacement
numbers.

From 1925-1965 we took in about 175,000 per year. Had we maintained
that level, we would have stabilized in a few decades. Now, with a
million legal and 700,000 illegals per year, we're doubling this
century and will continue to grow.

But it is all too easy to simply accomodate growth and pay only lip
service to the root cause. A case in point is the Sierra Club. They
do not even *acknowledge* the fact that mass immigration is driving
U.S. population to double this century. Thus activists get caught up
in the frenzy of protecting one threatened area after another - trying
to put out the fire as it jumps from tree to tree instead of focusing
on the burning forest.





Fred Elbel
Why population stabilization is important:
http://www.ecofuture.org/populat.html