Population-Environment Balance

A.      Title of agency or organization?               Population-Environment Balance

B.      Where is home base (city/state/country)?              Washington D.C.

C.      Date founded?  1970’s

D.      Names of key spokespersons/officers     Michael D. Richards, policy coordinator

E.       What/who is key constituency or audience?  Environmentalists, Conservationists, Anti-Immigration supporters

F.       What are the agency’s main activities?  Support legislation for a moratorium on immigration at 100,000 entries per year and sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens.

G.      Mission statement?   “Population-Environment Balance is a grassroots organization committed to stabilizing the U.S. population in order to safeguard the carrying capacity of the U.S.”

H.      What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this agency?     The main concern is that continued population growth in this country will surpass the sustainable carrying capacity of the land.

I.        As best as you can determine, on what evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.?   The web site cites Rope and Gallup Polls from the year 2002 and 2003 respectively .  a Harvard professor George Borjas,  a book published in 2000 entitled “America’s Forgotten Majority” by Ray Teixeira and Joel Rogers,  article “Immigration Moratoium: Effective Path to a Living Wage for Working Americans”  by Virginia Abernethy, Vanderbilt Medical School, and data derived from the book “Food, Land, Population, and the U.S. Economy” by Drs. David Pimentel and Marie Giampietro.

J.        Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online, give links)

The United States Population and Environment. January 1998.
Arguments against population stabilization in the United States are often misleading, incomplete, or just plain wrong. This resource provides some of the more common arguments you might encounter, and the expert responses. ($7.00)

Population Growth and Environmental Security. April 2002. ($7.00)

Why Excess Immigration is Increasingly Threatening Public Health and Quality of Life. October 2002. ($7.00)

The Sprawl Problem – Myths and Solutions. October 2000.
Contains information on how urban sprawl is consuming the United States. This resource dispels some of the commonly held myths of urban sprawl and smart growth. ($7.00)

Ethical Choices in a World of Limits. January 1998.
Dispels some of the commonly held myths of social justice, environmental protection, and immigration limitation. ($7.00)

Why Excess Immigration Damages the Environment. July 1997.
Discusses the reasons why limiting immigration into the United States is necessary to safeguard our environment. ($7.00)

Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis , by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett. December 1977. ($8.00)

The Steady-State Economy: Alternative to Growthmania, by Herman E. Daly.April 1987. ($8.00)

Population and Environment: Inseparable Policy Issues, by Lynton Caldwell. March 1985. ($8.00)

An Ecolate View of the Human Predicament, by Garret Hardin. October 1984. ($8.00)

Thinking Ahead: Foresight in the Political Process, by Lindsey Grant. 1983. ($8.00)

The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garret Hardin. May 1982. ($8.00)

The Cornucopian Fallacies, by Lindsey Grant. 1982. ($8.00)

BALANCE Bookstore

Abernethy, Virginia D. Population Politics. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. 2000. ($26.95)
Population Politics is a provocative examination of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world and U.S. population growth. These are often counterproductive to the role of the United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists, reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and public health personnel. This edition also contains an new introduction by the author.

Chandler, William; Geller, Howard; Ledbetter, Marc: Energy Efficiency: A New Agenda. American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, GW Press: Springfield, VA.
Proposes policies that will: save American consumers over $1 trillion, cut emmissions of climate-destabilizing gasses, reduce acid rain, trim America's projected oil imports by more than 25%, and more.

Hawkins, William. Importing Revolution: Open Borders and the Radical Agenda. Washington DC: American Immigration Control Foundation. 1994. ($7.00)
Revealing study of the opposition and their tactics used to increase immigration levels. Details the complex network of far-left radicals who occupy key positions in such organizations as the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the National Lawyers Guild. Hawkins provides evidence that some individuals leading these organizations resist immigration reduction in order to destabilize American society, and permanently change the U.S.

Lamm, Gov. Richard D. and Gary Imhoff. The Immigration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of America. New York: Truman Talley Books. 1985. ($20.00)
A deeply concerned warning by the former governor of Colorado on the massive flow of foreign immigrants each year - both legal and illegal - to the culturally fragmenting cities of the United States.

Meadows, Donella H. and et al. The Limits to Growth. New York: Universe Books. 1972. ($12.00)
Examines the five basic factors that determine and, in their interaction, ultimately limit growth on this planet - population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resources, industrial output, and pollution generation. The book seeks to achieve a state of global equilibrium with population and production in a carefully selected balance.

March, Louis T. Immigration and the End of Self-Government. Raleigh: Representative Government Press. 1999. ($5.95)
Cheap labor, forced political correctness and unending ethnic tension are now part of the political and cultural landscape of the United States. March’s analysis demonstrates how mass immigration is changing America’s body politic and our very form of government.

K.      Give at least one citation about this agency from a newspaper article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation index to research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the Migration Course Web Page made by the Fletcher Library:  http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html  Briefly state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of this agency’s perspective on im/migration.  Note: not a quote from agency’s own web site!

        Arizona Republic, The (Phoenix, AZ)  October 22, 2004  PROP. 200 A 'WAKE-UP CALL'?  OUT-OF-STATE FOES, BACKERS PREDICT U.S. CHAIN REACTION  Author: Amanda J. Crawford, The Arizona Republic  Edition: Final Chaser Section: Front Page: A1. This article from 2004 was weighing the costs and benefits of  Prop 200 which is aimed at curbing supposed voter and benefit fraud. "It is time to say to Congress it is time to deal with the issue."  National money going to Prop. 200 campaigns  In opposition  Service Employees International Union and its Education and Support Fund: $660,000.  AFSCME: $100,000.  AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education: $50,000.  In support  Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, and its Congressional Task Force: $332,131.  POP.STOP Inc.: $165,766.  Americans for Immigration Control: $115,766.  Americans for Better Immigration: $65,766.  Population-Environment Balance Inc.: $15,000.  Contributions reported to and posted online by the Arizona secretary of state as of Thursday.”

L.       Any other issues of interest about the agency?  Not really. This seems to be a rather small organization.

M.     Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration?  Con

 N.      Web site?   www.balance.org

by Ron Noffz, Spring 2006