Progressives for Immigration Reform held a conference on A Progressive Approach to Immigration Reform: US Immigration Policy and its Impact on Conservation and Labor in Washington, DC on October 4, 2011.
In the following video from the conference, Philip Cafaro, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University, President and Board Chair, Progressives for Immigration Reform posits the notion of petitioning the Council for Environmental Quality to revise current rules to include population as a factor in Environmental Impact Statements, and to mandate that population growth become a trigger for necessitating the completion of an Environmental Impact Statement.
Cafaro explains that Progressives for Immigration Reform is undertaking the development of an Environmental Impact Statement on United States immigration policy. The intent of the EIS is to broaden the scope of governmental decision-making to include the impacts of immigration-driven population growth on water usage, biodiversity, and the international consequences of US immigration policy – for example: the impacts of large-scale immigration into the US on global carbon emissions and the importance of population stabilization in developing donor countries.
