“Climate Change”, “Population Change”, And The Need For An Immigration Moratorium


The
President is about

roar off
to Copenhagen in his personal 747 jumbo jet to
raise awareness, in a December 9 speech, of how carbon
emissions lead to Climate Change—the cause

formerly known
as

“Global Warming”.

But while the President gears up his
campaign for

Climate Change awareness in Denmark
, a Population Change
anti-awareness campaign has long been in full swing in
America.



The acid test of the sincerity of Climate Change activists:
do they publicly demand a

U.S immigration moratorium
to keep carbon emissions from
increasing?

A few environmentalists pass this test
proudly. For example,

Californians for Population Stabilization
has started a
new ad campaign. Their press release says:

“The
campaign recognizes immigration as the number one factor
driving U.S. population growth and makes the point that when
immigrants settle in the U.S. their energy use quickly
becomes Americanized. As a result, immigrants` carbon
emissions skyrocket. The result is a

quadrupling of immigrants` carbon footprint
compared to
the amount of carbon emissions they produced in their home
countries.”

Mexicans don`t illegally immigrate to
avoid starvation. The average life expectancy in Mexico is
over

76 years
. Instead, the major motivations for sneaking
into America include: the hope of owning a

big truck or SUV;
and to have more kids than you could
afford to have in your own country. The current total
fertility rate in Mexico is

2.34 babies
per woman per lifetime—versus

3.7 babies
among immigrant Latinas in California.

But,
alas, the vast majority of those who claim that carbon
emissions is the overwhelming issue of our age fail this
test of good faith flatly.

On the other hand, their

dishonesty
doesn`t guarantee that they aren`t right
about carbon and global warming. Global warming true
believers seem, on the whole, like the kind of people who
would be more likely to be right about something for bad
reasons than for good reasons.

As you may have noticed from the above, I
normally

don`t have much to say about climate change.
I`m sort of
an agnostic.

I know
enough about statistics to realize how much effort would be
required for me to develop an opinion worth expressing. Nor
is it obvious that, even if I invested years of work, I
would be able to add much value to the discussion.

After
all, both sides in the debate over anthropogenic global
warming debate are lavishly funded.

Thus the participants have much to lose if
the numbers don`t come out the way they want. This is
demonstrated by the

Climategate
scandal, in which a skeptical whistleblower
leaked embarrassing emails from the prestigious

Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

I do instinctively admire much of the
Burkean-sounding rhetoric used by Climate Change activists:
“sustainability”;
cautiousness about the future; a concern for the long-term
impact of millions of small action; a regard for the welfare
of posterity.

Yet why
are those Climate Change  insights
so seldom applied to the question of

Population Change?

So I`ve
decided to devote my time to Population Change. It`s an
issue that is at least
comparable in long-term importance to Climate Change. The
changing makeup of the population has

far-reaching ramifications
that deserve well-informed
public discussion. But, of course, that`s not a fashionable
view on either the Left or the

corporate Right.

Unlike with Climate Change, there`s almost
no debate over the numbers with Population Change. The
government collects voluminous statistics about the present
that are, at minimum, good enough for government work, and
make plausible

demographic projections
about the future.

Nor do I
have to worry much about my rivals in the Population Change
debate. While the other side enjoys unlimited access to the
media, it simply prefers demonizing to debating.

Quantifying what you can see with

your own eyes
makes you a
bad
person
these days. A nice person, one who believes in
climate change, has faith in the power of things unseen.

To serve my country, I just have to have a
thick enough hide to withstand

rage-filled respectable conduits
of the reigning dogmas
screaming “How dare you?”
at me.

Mostly,
I just have to dare.


Moreover, the data, both governmental and academic, merely
confirm what`s visible to anyone with eyes to see. In
contrast, the scariest prediction of Al Gore and Co.—that
the ice caps will melt, causing the seas to rise and
inundate us—is not at all obvious from just using your eyes.

I went
for a walk on a Southern California beach recently, and
couldn`t see any evidence of the ocean level rising.

That
doesn`t mean ocean levels aren`t—or at least won`t
start—rising Real Soon Now. But it does mean that it`s not
at all obvious.

And, as

Sherlock Holmes
pointed out, you have to notice the

dogs
that aren`t barking.

For
example, are
California surfers
complaining that rising seas are
wiping out beaches, or deepening the water over underwater
reefs that cause famous breaks like the

Pipeline in Orange County?

Not that
I`m aware of.

Are rich, white liberal environmental
activists who live on the beach in Malibu, such as
David Geffen,
fleeing to the High Desert?

No.

Walking
the beach recently after a rain shower, I didn`t notice any
For Sale signs on the
zillionaires`
homes forty yards from the surf.
Indeed, in California,
home prices have proven much more resilient in direct
proportion to

how close they are to the ocean`s edge,
while they`ve
plummeted in the high and dry

Inland Empire.

This is not to say that there`s nothing to
worry about from Climate Change. Yet what people seem to
actually be affected by, as demonstrated in real estate prices, is
Population Change.

The

Mortgage Meltdown
is closely linked to population
change. For example, the correlation for the 20 biggest
California metropolitan areas between minority share of
subprime mortgages in 2006 and foreclosure rates in 2009 was
a
stratospheric r = 0.89
.

California has

already

been inundated,

fiscally
, by the
rising tide
of population change.

But only
evil people like me are aware of that—and dare to tell the
rest of America.

[Steve Sailer (email
him) is


movie critic
for


The American Conservative
.

His website

www.iSteve.blogspot.com

features his daily blog. His new book,

AMERICA`S HALF-BLOOD PRINCE: BARACK OBAMA`S
"STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE", is
available


here
.]