Nationalists know that immigration has a negative impact on the environment but for some reasons the Green Party supports mass immigration and an amnesty for the one million or so illegals living in the UK.
Nonetheless there are environmentalists with common sense left, at least in Australia where Australian Greens recently claimed that immigration should be cut to keep Australia’s population sustainable.
Greens leader Bob Brown said most people did not support the federal government’s plan to boost population from 22 to 36 million by 2050.
“Most people think our lifestyle is good, but some of the bigger cities are bursting at the seams,” Senator Brown told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
“We’re at record high immigration and it’s got to be reviewed.
“I think immigration levels should settle down much lower than they are at the moment, without cutting humanitarian immigration.”
Last financial year, 184,000 migrants were granted entry to Australia.
Most gained a visa due to their work skills, while almost a third came on a family visa.
About seven per cent were humanitarian entrants, including refugees.
Senator Brown criticised the amount of skilled migrants.
“You can buy your way into this country if you’re rich or you’re highly skilled.”
He said Australians should live sustainably but a big population increase would threaten the nation’s ability to do that.
The government on Monday released its third intergenerational report, which includes the 36 million population forecast.
Senator Brown was concerned that inadequate efforts were being made to tackle climate change when it came to planning for the future.
A failure to address climate change would sock the economy, he said.
“If we don’t tackle climate change, we not only lose quality of life … but we lose eight per cent of the gross national product,” Senator Brown said.
Australia is a huge country unlikely to be used as an example to describe the danger of overcrowding as it is one of the least populated in the world.
But in the last few years a severe drought has caused huge amount of damage to the agricultural sector.
Of course many blame global warming but many rivers are now dry because of higher water consumption and water management is a pressing issue in Australian politics.
It’s clear that the increase in urban population caused by immigration is the main reason why water consumption is reducing the level of rivers as more of the stuff is pumped from them and how this, in turn, is putting huge tract of land at risk of desertification.
This is why Senator Brown is against government’ plan to increase Australian population.
If Australia, a huge country, can barely afford to sustain such increase, what we can say about Britain, one of the most overcrowded countries in the world?
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