Thanks to the Rising Generation
January 12, 2010
by Phil Cafaro
After several decades in which American environmentalists have mostly dropped the ball on population issues, it appears that a younger generation may be more willing to face reality. A recent case in point: an article in the latest issue of The Social Contract titled “The Elephant in the Room: Population and Immigration in the United States and Their Impact on Climate Change.” It’s by Alexander Krueger-Wyman, a recent graduate of Princeton University and is based on his honors thesis completed under Dr. Stephen Macedo, who has written on the ethics of immigration. The article includes a detailed discussion of the impacts of population growth on greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of immigration on U.S. population growth. Krueger-Wyman concludes that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to do our part to combat global climate change, and that this necessarily includes reducing immigration and stabilizing America’s population.
It’s an excellent article, which can be found online at:
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_20_1/tsc_10_1_krueger_wyman.shtml
For a pdf file:
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/twenty-one/tsc_20_1_krueger_wyman.pdf
