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California TV Ad Says Current and Future Immigration Exacerbates Global Warming

Immigrants Produce Four Times More Carbon Emissions in U.S. Than In Their Home Countries

Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has launched an ad campaign in California TV markets. The TV spots point out that when immigrants settle in the U.S., their energy use quickly becomes Americanized. As a result their carbon emissions skyrocket. The result is a quadrupling of immigrants’ carbon footprints compared to the amount of carbon emissions they produced in their home countries.

CAPS is launching the TV campaign as America faces the largest population increase in its history. According to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau projections, U.S. population will jump from 305 million today to more than 400 million by 2040. That’s a 33 percent increase yielding an additional 100 million more people in just the next thirty years. It’s an increase equivalent to adding another entire Western half of the country. According to Pew Research, 82 percent of that growth will be a result of immigration and births to immigrants.

Diana Hull, President of Californians for Population Stabilization commented, “Imagine taking close to 100 million people with a relatively small carbon footprint and quadrupling their carbon emissions overnight just by moving them to the U.S. That’s going to significantly impact Global Warming. Cutting immigration to the U.S. isn’t the only thing we should do to solve the global warming problem, but stopping mass immigration, especially from low carbon use nations will go a long way towards a solution because it is a significant contributor to the problems we face.”

Charity Navigator Rating - Californians for Population Stabilization

Founded in 1986, Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is a membership-based, public interest organization determined to end policies and practices that cause overpopulation and the resultant decline in our quality of life in California and in the United States. We are confronting the most important issue facing California and the United States--runaway population growth. Overpopulation brings environmental damage and overuse of nature's bounty. It strains local infrastructure and frays community institutions. It affects air and water quality, causes destruction of forests and wildlife, and results in the permanent loss of fertile land and other non-renewable resources. CAPS works to formulate and advance policies and programs which will preserve a good quality of life for all Californians.