Issue 75: May 23, 2001
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Ed Abbey
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Last December, in a Los Angeles Times story, reporter Robin Wright asked Bangladeshi President Sheika Hasina:
"At independence, Bangladeshi women averaged six to seven children. Today, that rate has been halved by a [...]

Issue 73: May 7, 2001
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In a new Gallup poll released Thursday (May 3, 2001), more Americans (43%) want to see immigration levels lowered from current levels, than to remain the same (41%). (http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010503.asp )
To those who object to current U.S. immigration policy — which will drive 90% of the country’s [...]

Issue 71: April 30, 2001
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On an issue that continues to divide the Sierra Club, an important ballot initiative was narrowly beaten back this month. The referendum would have forced Club leaders to stress population growth as a major factor in sprawl. (This would seem an obvious connection, but the sprawl/population issue [...]

Issue 63: February 19, 2001
Studies show that by consuming cheap labor from developing countries, U.S. immigration policy encourages global population growth. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/immigr/populate.htm
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To test a man for insanity, the story goes, put him in a room in which a water faucet is open and the sink is overflowing. Hand him a [...]

Sierra Club: immigration can save rain forests
Issue 66: March 19, 2001
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In a March 16 Las Vegas Sun article, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope suggests that the recent destruction of an Indonesian rain forest due to ethnic war in that country could have been prevented by importing some of [...]