As a political junky, to me this is one of the most interesting coming political clashes (war really!) that I look forward to watching. It is inevitable that honest environmentalists (as opposed to leftwing Soros-style-control-freak environmentalists) are headed to a major clash with Leftwing (use the immigrants as pawns to bring about socialism) open borders advocates. The Left will be fighting the Left—I love it!
I’m a Yale-educated (Yale School of Forestry) environmentalist by training , something I don’t often admit because some time along about in the 1970’s people who really cared about the environment and open space and preserving nature were run out of the movement by powerful people and foundations with big bucks who saw the environment as one more way to gain control over people’s lives, to use the environment and people’s love for it as a stick to bring about greater consolidation and government control primarily at the federal level. I wanted nothing to do with it. By the way, the historical roots of environmentalism were not firmly planted in the Left until the late 1960’s and early 70’s.
About the same time, those very Leftwing foundations and funders, people like Soros, and foundations like the Tides Foundation, and a whole host of others figured out that they needed to get more federal control by importing millions of immigrants—that would be the poor and angry needed to fuel the war of the “Have-nots” vs. the “Haves” that Saul Alinsky told them were needed to bring about change.
Those two goals, protecting the enviroment and flooding the country with poor people are mutually exclusive and will one day, hopefully soon, bring about a war of the titans within the American Left.
The Center for Immigration Studies appears to be itching for the conflict to commence with its panel discussion next week in Washington, DC. entitled “Immigration, Population, and the Environment: Experts to Debate Impact of Current Policies.”
WASHINGTON (August 19, 2009) – It is well-documented that current U.S. immigration policies will increase America’s population by about 100 million people over the next half-century. Past attempts to restructure the federal immigration program have often included debates on education, assimilation, health care, labor, and many other issues. But the environmental impact of immigration-driven population growth is usually missing from the discussion, despite the fact that environmental concerns are high on the Obama Administration’s priority list.
Be sure to check out all the information on who will speak and especially read this report (The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration) put out by CIS in June.
I’ve thought for a long time that there needs to be a new kind of environmental movement, not corrupted by the far Left and not geared to top-down control from the Federal government. Maybe the time has come.
As for the question of where Obama will be, if he had to make a choice, I’ll wager he will pick continuing high immigration over environmental protection because the immigrants are needed for the Alinsky strategy to work and to bring us closer to a borderless world. Up until now he hasn’t had to choose because mainstream environmental groups have been scared into silence (or their silence was bought) on the whole immigration issue.
Wouldn’t it be fun to see Obama lose the environmentalists along with those senior citizens he is losing over government health care.