Will Restricting Immigration Protect the Environment?
This is a pressing question being discussed across the country and an issue that the Center for New Community is taking quite seriously. In fact, I take this issue so seriously that it will be my focus for the next two to three years in my role as Field Organizer for the Center for New Community’s new initiative on Migration, Race and the Environment. I think that the two theories, the Malthusian and nativist theories (described in further detail below), that have been used to argue that immigration should be restricted, lack substance and thus my answer to this question is that immigration should not be restricted.
The Malthusian theory was born when Malthus published “An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798”, in which he stated that the discrepancy between the rates of population and food growth would lead to a permanent food shortage for humans. Specifically, scholars belonging to the Malthusian tradition claim that populations are constrained by the carrying capacity of the environment and that population growth causes environmental degradation. Read more
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