Report: Immigrant population over 15% in record 16 states, over 25% in 6

(Hat tip: KimR) - One third of the nation's 50 states now have immigrant populations over 15 percent, with six over 25 percent, raising new questions about the country's ability to absorb the immigrant flood in schools and the job market, a new report on government immigration data said. Read more at the Washington Examiner Read More......

Re: Corvallis "Vlsion/Climate Action Plan"

UPDATE: John Detweiler's letter was published by the Corvallis Gazette-Times on 4/23/15: Letter: 'Climate action plan' misfires; Earth's woes are due to overpopulation

April 16, 2015 - Today, John H. Detweiler shared the following letter, which he submitted to the Gazette-Times Opinion page:

The proposed FY15-16 budget contains a project entitled "Vision/Climate Action Plan". The project proposes to spend $285,000 this year and $735,000 in cumulative costs. That money would be better spent on fixing potholes, capital investments with a high internal rate of return, or simply saved. The last Vision Statement contained fine sounding words that have been used to beat up developers. I expect a new Vision and Action Plan will not be any better. Moreover, unless city government is going to fund the "action", the envisioned projects need to be profitable for developers or they will not happen.

Any action that Corvallis takes to change the climate will just be noise in the earth's thermodynamic system. The real problem is the growing world population -- all of whom want to live the way the developed world lives -- which I estimate will be close to 12Billion early in the next century. Corvallis cannot take any action that will restrain or reduce population growth. For more on this issue, the reader is referred to "Cutting through Climate Change BS" on http://www.peak.org/~detweij.

John H. Detweiler

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Human population a plague on the Earth?

Rob Sloan of The American Vision takes on 16th Century Giovanni Botero, 18th Century Dr. Robert Wallace, 19th Century Thomas Robert Malthus, and now Sir David Attenborough, Bill and Melinda Gates, and hoards of environmentalists and NGO utopians claiming that earth cannot support high populations or that people are the scourge of the earth and strict population control is a necessity. Sloan disputes the dire warnings that worldwide famine and poverty is a certainty if human population is not drastically reduced. He writes,

It is quite simply a fallacy to equate large populations with famine and poverty and an even bigger error to propose population control as the means of dealing with the situation. As the economist Murray Rothbard pointed out, “A rising population is generally a sign of, and goes along with, prosperity and economic development.

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The fact is, Sir David Attenborough, along with Bill & Melinda, have no more idea what the maximum population of the Earth is than I do or Malthus did 200 years ago. Only God knows that. Nor do they know how much more abundance the Earth can bring forth than it presently does. Again only God knows that. What we do know is that where the gospel has prospered and where people have by and large been allowed to innovate and produce, blessing has followed, populations have grown and the people have been fed. And where the state has attempted to fill the role of God, centrally planning, disincentivising work and innovation, poverty and famine inevitably follow.

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