by Mark Nowak
This NPG Special Report, by NPG Fellow Mark Nowak, provides accurate, unpoliticized information for environmentalists working on the national immigration debate. With many environmental organizations debating whether their group should even acknowledge the role of immigration as an issue, this report is a great primer for those wanting to discuss this oft-overlooked component of our population policy.
Compiled by NPG, this listing details the official population and migration positions of 29 national environmental and population organizations such as the Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, The Wilderness Society and Zero Population Growth. Contact information for each organization is included as well.
This intriguing piece takes a look at the beginnings of America's concern with overpopulation, and our surprising lack of a national population policy today. The first section describes the unfortunate abandonment of congressional support for changes deemed necessary by the Rockefeller Commission 25 years ago including President Nixon's dismissing of the Commission's recommendations even though the Commission had concluded that "no substantial benefits would result from continued growth of the nation's population."
The second half of the piece asks, "Would life be better now had the Commission's recommendations been adopted? And will life be worse in the future because we dismissed the Commission's goals?" The conclusion outlines a plan for America to gradually reduce our vast numbers, and strive for implementation of the policies that for decades have been recognized as vital to our country's future.
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