A pseudo-progressive argument for closed borders uses false logic and dubious statistics, and blames migrants for the conditions that force them to move.
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Ecosocialist resources, April 2016
Click and learn: 10 new recommended readings for green-lefts and left-greens
Population control group uses Earth Day to attack immigrants
Population controllers show their bigotry, again
Australia: populationists use racism to split green vote
Populationist groups are trying to split Australian environmentalism with a coordinated anti-immigrant campaign
Racism in a fancy green wrapper
Why I refused an invitation to speak at a public meeting in Washington
A population bomber is outraged
“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” -Bertrand Russell
The return of the population bombers
Overpopulation ideology undermined the environmental movement in the 1970s, diverting social protest into harmless channels. To prevent a similar setback today, we must understand populationism’s conservative role, and why it is attractive to a growing number of green activists.
Dave Foreman’s Man Swarm: Defending wildlife by attacking immigrants
Ian Angus reviews Dave Foreman’s new book, Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife. It’s a compendium of every anti-human (and especially anti-immigrant) argument you’ll ever hear from a self-proclaimed conservationist.
Anti-immigration groups organize against book that exposes population myths
Lacking arguments of their own, anti-immigration groups on three continents have resorted to distributing an article they don’t agree with, by an author who rejects what they stand for – just because it is critical of “Too Many People?” (more…)
What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1%?
Ironically, while populationist groups focus attention on the 7 billion, protestors in the worldwide Occupy movement have identified the real source of environmental destruction: not the 7 billion, but the 1% (more…)
Population book misdiagnoses Australia's environmental crisis
Dick Smith’s Population Crisis: The Dangers of Unsustainable Growth for Australia. Allen & Unwin, Sydney Australia, 2011. ISBN 978-1-74237-657-8 reviewed by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, August 28, 2011 Those who say today’s big social and ecological problems stem from there being too many people on the planet face a special difficulty. As the Australian ecologist […]
Climate Activists Confront Anti-Immigrant Fake Greens
Power Shift attendees stood strong against groups like Progressives for Immigration Reform and made it clear that environmentalists stand with immigrants as we begin to face the realities of climate change
Canadian group scapegoats immigrants for environmental degradation
New anti-immigration “center” has strong ties to the ruling Conservative Party (more…)
The greening of hate, Canadian-style
Leading Canadian conservatives use green arguments to promote anti-immigrant sentiment (more…)
Stop the greening of bigotry – take the pledge today!
Stop the greening of hate: Video and environmental anti-racism pledge developed by the Center for New Community (more…)
Betsy Hartmann: An Environmentalist Essay on the Greening of Hate
The rhetoric of some population and environment groups is edging dangerously toward the same arguments used by proponents of the greening of hate. (more…)
Australian TV airs 'manipulative and dangerous' attack on immgrants
“Population Puzzle” proposes a false solution to real problems, lets the real culprits for capitalist growth off the hook (more…)
Should Climate Activists Support Limits on Immigration?
by Ian Angus and Simon Butler Immigrants to the developed world have frequently been blamed for unemployment, crime and other social ills. Attempts to reduce or block immigration have been justified as necessary measures to protect “our way of life” from alien influences. (more…)
Green Fascism and the Greening of Hate
Population control — the ideology of the green right (more…)