Reply #36: first off by recognizing it as an environmental issue [View All]

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as a component of overall population growth in this country, and looking at all of the factors that lead to immigration in the first place. Mostly, people come here for economic reasons, so improving the education & economic opportunities in related countries would be paramount, in addition to supporting real democracy, not authoritarian governments. Reducing legal immigration limits to 300,000 or so (this roughly matches the number of pepole that leave the U.S. each year) would be another step to look at, although this may be mostly a symbolic act.

Now, my question back at you, would be this: If it is a matter of population shift and not population growth then:

A. Would you agree that population "shift" is an environmental concern ?
B. If so, what would YOU do to deal with the environmental consequences of this "shift" ?

And yes, I DO like Mexican food over Mongolian food.