Author: Walter Youngquist
Walter Youngquist, PhD, is a consulting geologist who has studied the relationship between Earth’s resources and its population in over seventy countries. A fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is the author of GeoDestinies. This article is reprinted with permission from The Social Contract.
U.S. Immigration and the Limits of Supporting Earth Resources
Population growth is now exacerbating nearly every environmental problem in the U.S., and tends to erase any gains made from conservation and technological advances.
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