# Are environmentalists cowards on immigration? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 11, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086 "2011-06-11T06:04:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 283
**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086/283 "2011-06-17T04:05:01Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Of course, you are still trying to extirpate immigrants from the population, in the end you are proposing that we should be like a ranger that demands that a all deciduous trees be removed from the forest before using water on the huge fire already taking place. I’m saying waters supplies are already strained - read the report. Demand is exceeding supply and population growth is an issue. Immigration is largely driving population growth. I’m not talking about “extirpating” existing immigrants from the population (nice emotional rhetoric). I’m talking about prospective immigration going on current trends. > [@](#): > > If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center. > > Of the 117 million people added to the population during this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren. [http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=85](http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=85) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086)._