If it can happen in Texas, it can happen anywhere
Roy Beck and Gregory Davis
PUBLISHED: Mon, MAY 1st 2023 @ 1:38 pm EDT by Jeremy Beck
Last week, NumbersUSA sent a team to the Texas State Fair grounds in Dallas, TX, site of the largest Earth Day exposition in the world, EarthX. We presented our new study on Texas sprawl, and shared our exhibit with over a fifteen hundred people, most of whom were not surprised to learn that Texas has lost more open space than any other state in recent decades, mostly due to its rapid population growth which is increasingly driven by people moving into Texas from other states and other countries.
Our "provocative" presentation
On behalf of his co-authors Leon Kolankiewicz and Eric Ruark, NumbersUSA's Founder and current Board Member Roy Beck presented "The Illusion of Limitless Texas Habitat," at the Green Speaker Stage. The full 40-minute presentation was professionally recorded for EarthX TV, but we've condensed cell phone footage down to a five-minute version here:
Condensed presentation
"The whole world could move here," Roy says, "but is there ecological room?" Texas, despite its size, is already running an ecological deficit, "borrowing deeply from the future as well as from other states and countries."
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/if-it-can-happen-texas-it-can-happen-anywhere
