https://www.theepochtimes.com/immigration-driven-population-growth-claiming-vast-swaths-of-open-space-report_4347300.htmlImmigration-Driven Population Growth Claiming Vast Swaths of Open Space: ReportBy Nathan Worcester
March 18, 2022
NOTE: when reading articles from The Epoch Times, DISABLE JAVASCRIPT in your browser. This can be done with the click of the mouse using free add-ons and extensions.Excerpt:A new report from NumbersUSA has revealed that 17,800 square miles of open space in the United States were claimed by development between 2002 and 2017.
That area is about as large as Connecticut and Maryland put together.
“The rate of sprawl in this century has slowed down fairly substantially from what it was in the ‘70s through the 1990s. That’s the good news, and it’s for a variety of reasons, some of which are not so good—the 2008 meltdown, for example,” said Leon Kolankiewicz, scientific director for NumbersUSA and the lead author of “From Sea to Sprawling Sea,” in an interview with The Epoch Times.
“The bad news, if I could put it that way, is that population growth represents an ever-larger share of the forces driving that urban sprawl.”
Population growth accounted for 60 percent of sprawl over the larger 30-year period between 1982 and 2017. Yet, during the period between 2002 and 2017, fully 67 percent of sprawl was due to population growth, rather than other factors.
In a 2015 report, Pew found that 55 percent of population growth in the U.S. between 1965 and 2015 stemmed from immigrants or their descendants.
Pew projected that 88 percent of U.S. population growth from 2015 through 2065 will result from immigrants and their descendants.
A 2019 report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows an even more dramatic trend. CIS’s analysis of data and projections from the U.S. Census Bureau suggests that future immigration could drive 95 percent of U.S. population growth between 2017 and 2060.
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