A NEW LOOK AT THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE (NPG Booknote)
- Leon Bouvier
- July 1, 1995
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A NEW LOOK AT THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE
An NPG Forum Paper
(NPG Booknote)
by Leon F Bouvier
July 1995
Environmental journalist Roy Beck has produced a truly worthwhile gem of a book for anyone wishing to learn more about population growth and immigration or for anyone planning to debate the issues. As is stated on the cover, his are “responses to arguments against stabilizing U.S. population and limiting immigration.” Thus, Beck makes it clear that he is aligned with those Americans who favor a limit to both population growth and immigration.
But the author is eminently fair. It would have been relatively easy for him to set up “straw men” and thereby easily destroy opposing arguments. Rather, Beck states these opposing positions in an objective manner. He then proceeds to calmly point out how incorrect they are and, in the process, often citing important sources to bolster his position.
The author tackles a variety of controversial topics such as the politics of religion and population growth and family planning as well as politics that lie behind the failure of some in the environmental movement to confront population growth and immigration as contributors to environmental degradation. This is especially relevant today as the anti-environmental movement grows since the November elections.
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