Global Warming and Immigration
31st July 2010
Steve Sailer connects the dots.
The population of the U.S. in 1980 was 227 million. In 2050, the Census Bureau forecasts it will be 439 million, with most of that growth due to immigration. By 2050, immigration will have made the U.S. about 150 million people more populous, or about 55% more. Thus, to reduce U.S. carbon emissions to any particular level, per capita emissions will have to be reduced about 35% more than if there had been no immigration.And it’s not as if global emissions would be the same. People move to the U.S. from the Third World so they can afford a car, air conditioning, and the like. One plausible estimate is that Mexican immigrants emit four times as much carbon in the U.S. than if they had stayed home.
One of the most amusing aspects of Progressivism is that it includes a bizarre amalgam of special-interest groups whose positions are incompatible; the double-think required to get them all marching in the same direction toward the New World Order is one of the most amazing achievements of the Crust.