Help Push for Regs Requiring Environmental Impacts of Immigration be Addressed

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA-1969) requires that proposed Federal Actions which have a “Significant Impact” on the environment first be analyzed to reveal that impact.

Yet, to date, No Federal Agency has complied with the explicit concern expressed in NEPA for the “profound influences of Population Growth” … on the environment.

NOW, we have Opportunity to make Analyses of Immigration-driven population growth a Regulatory requirement—specifically, that such Analyses be included as Environmental Impact Statements in proposals for Federal Agency Actions.

Specifically, the Federal Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ) is soliciting public comments to implement updated Environmental Regulations for NEPA per a Trump Administration plan to update them.

So NOW is our Opportunity to submit comments to the CEQ (IMPORTANT: comment period ends on MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018).

Follow this link (CEQ Public Comments on NEPA Proposed Environmental Regs) to the CEQ comments page.

And feel free to quote any BALANCE Alerts. For your convenience, we reprint our recent Alert “Legal Immigration Costs & Consequences” below. ACT NOW!

And please help BALANCE push this and other environmental protection initiatives by donating NOW (BALANCE GoFundMe Campaign or POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT BALANCE).

BALANCE is anti-Mass-Immigration, not anti-immigrant.

LEGAL IMMIGRATION COSTS & CONSEQUENCES
-- KEY POINTS & BALANCE'S SOLUTION

• NUMBERS Background: world population increases by about 80 million/year. Pressure to come to USA will only increase—1.5 Million Legal Immigrants settle in the U.S.A. every year: Average since 2005. Recently 1.6-1.7 Million Annually
• California—400,000 legal immigrants per year (U. S. Census)

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES

FARMLAND & NATURAL HABITAT LOSS

“For every Person added to U.S. (or California) Population, one Acre of precious Farmland or Natural Habitat lost to Developed Uses (e.g., Malls, Sprawl Tract Housing) (Pimentel et al Cornell)

SPECIES EXTINCTION

United States “Top 10 U.S. Endangered Species”, Center for Biological Diversity: As the human population grows we are crowding out, poisoning and eating all other species into extinction. With the world population hitting 7 billion, the Center is marking this milestone by releasing a list of species in the United States facing extinction caused by the growing human population. The 10 species represent a range of geography, as well as species diversity—but all are critically threatened by the effects of human population. Some, like the Florida panther and Mississippi gopher frog, are rapidly losing habitat as the human population expands. Others are seeing their habitat dangerously altered—like the small flowering sandplain gerardia in New England—or, like the bluefin tuna, are buckling under the weight of massive overfishing.

SEE “EXTINCTION DETAILS” IN NOTE BELOW

U.S. Taxpayers Costs—$330 BILLION PER YEAR NET (after subtracting Taxes Immigrants pay) from legal immigration alone, i.e.,

$3.3 TRILLION prospectively for Decade

Does NOT include COSTS to States and Localities

= $758 MILLION per Year for Each Congressional District. That is, it costs on average $1000 per person per year!

62% for “free” (I.e. U.S. Taxpayer-funded) Health Care, Health Insurance, & Welfare

EMPLOYMENT CONSEQUENCES

Professor Computer Science, U.C. Davis, Norm Matloff Blog “Vast Majority of H1B and related visa hires are Cheap Labor Hires”

Confirmed by Williams / CCN Study—5.9 MILLION AMERICANS DISPLACED from JOBS SINCE 2005 by IMMIGRANT WORKERS. See carryingcapacity.org

ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

Population Growth usually increases Aggregate GDP but ALWAYS DECREASES PER CAPITA GDP—the True Test of Nations’ Wealth

Compare Bangladesh and New Zealand with same size GDP BUT Bangladesh has 4 times the Population which is much poorer per capita.

True of U.S, today—per John Williams of shadowstats.com

PERSONAL SAFETY ENVIRONMENT

“Help me, Dad.” Kate Steinle’s dying words impel all of us to redouble our efforts to oppose Sanctuary Cities, Reduce Legal and Stop Illegal Immigration. The Boston Bombers, San Bernardino Shooters and ISIS Truck Driver who ran down Pedestrians and Cyclists in New York City recently were all Legal Immigrants!

Solution: The U.S.A. needs a zero–net Moratorium, i.e., 150,000/year in 150,000/year out on all categories of legal.

So please help BALANCE MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS to intensity our push for the aforementioned all-categories included zero-NET MORATORIUM TODAY, NOW! Contact your representative!
IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION IS BEING CONSIDERED NOW!

TO MAXIMIZE OUR CLOUT PLEASE DONATE NOW!

BALANCE very much needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Dollar for Dollar, Donations to BALANCE and its Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much more Political Clout for reduction in immigration number than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups.

So Please DONATE NOW by credit card at our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate by check via U.S mail, please send to:

Population-Environment Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104

The Next Few Days are Critical!

Thank you,

Population-Environment Balance
populationenvironmentbalance.blogspot.com balance.org

EXTINCTION DETAILS

World “Human Population Growth & Species Extinction” IBID. We're in the midst of the Earth's sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction. Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history.

The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by a single species rather than a planetary or galactic physical process. When the human race—dHomo sapiens sapiens

“Human Population Growth & Earth Ecosystem & Species Extinction” IBID Humans annually absorb 42 percent of the Earth's terrestrial net primary productivity,30 percent of its marine net primary productivity, and 50 percent of its fresh water [3].

Forty percent of the planet's land is devoted to human food production, up from 7 percent in 1700 [3].

Fifty percent of the planet's land mass has been transformed for human use [3].

More atmospheric nitrogen is now fixed by humans that all other natural processes combined [3].

The authors of Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems, including the current director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, concluded:

"[A]ll of these seemingly disparate phenomena trace to a single cause: the growing scale of the human enterprise. The rates, scales, kinds, and combinations of changes occurring now are fundamentally different from those at any other time in history.

"When the population of a species grows beyond the capacity of its environment to sustain it, it reduces that capacity below the original level, ensuring an eventual population crash.

"Extinction is the most serious, utterly irreversible effect of unsustainable human population."

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BALANCE is anti-Mass-Immigration, not anti-immigrant.

BALANCE is the leading National Organization publicizing information regarding the
Threat of Mass Immigration-generated population growth to our Environment, Nation, Budgets, and Personal Safety and Mobilizing Activists to Reduce it.