A fun Earth Day item I missed:

Immigration Is Bad for the Environment, Group Says

(CNSNews.com) - “As Americans commemorate Earth Day on April 22, the country’s ecology and resource base continue to be imperiled by mass immigration,” says a group that wants the “rule of law” enforced at the nation’s borders.

…[T]he Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)…notes that since the first Earth Day in 1970, the U.S. population has grown by more than 100 million people — “driven by ever increasing levels of immigration.”…On Earth Day 2008, the organization is renewing its call for a rollback of “excessive” immigration to the United States…Unless the government does something about the ever-increasing levels of immigration, Americans will face a future that holds worsening environmental conditions, dwindling resources, and greater dependence on foreign energy sources, [FAIR President Dan] Stein said.

“This was not the sort of future envisioned by people like the late Senator Gaylord Nelson who initiated the Earth Day celebration,” he added. “As we observe Earth Day, we call upon our nation’s leaders to get off the immigration and population growth spiral that can only lead to further environmental degradation.”

Ah diversity. Environment vs. Immigrants — and here we’ve got Native American tribes cleaning up after the immigrants: “Diverse Trash Found All Over”

But it’s like I’ve been saying: Some people want to hold the U.S. legally liable for rising sea levels in other countries (see Kyoto) because of our disproportionate carbon dioxide emissions. But the people from those countries are the ones moving here to do their emitting. And can we be legally liable if half of them come here illegally? Maybe if we didn’t have such open borders, and maybe if more countries were more industrialized, people wouldn’t be risking their lives to do their driving and farting over here.

I’m also going to use this occasion to question why everyone is so sure that Democrats are better for the environment than Republicans. After all, it’s liberals who are polluting our water supply with all their anti-depressant medication that ends up in the system. That’s not Republican Prozac in the water (Republicans are able to function in reality — that’s why they don’t need to create an alternate universe for themselves like Hollywood or academia). This just proves that liberalism is a mental illness. The proof is in the water.

You know what else ends up in the water? All the liberated womens’ contraceptives. Which are giving the fish sex changes. So it’s not enough that they’re confusing our kids in the schools over whom to be attracted to first — boys or girls — they have to confuse the fishes too. Which reminds me to link this:

Children’s hospital launches sex change for kids program

A doctor at the renowned Children’s Hospital Boston has launched a new program to drug children to delay puberty so they can decide whether they want a male or a female body, according to a report today in the Boston Globe.

Pediatric endocrinologist Norman Spack, 64, says he started the Gender Management Service Clinic because he found himself encountering 20-somethings who were “transgendered” and in good shape socially, “but they were having trouble getting their physique to conform to their identity.

“I knew the 20-somethings could have better chances of passing if they were treated earlier,” he said.
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“Is this our future?” asked [the pro-family organization] Mass Resistance in a commentary. “Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”
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In a question-and-answer session with Globe columnist Pagan Kennedy, she starts the apologetic for doing surgery on children by saying, “Little boys sob unless they’re allowed to wear dresses. The girls want to be called Luke, Ted, or James.”
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Spack tells the interviewer he’s seen “preadolescents” who have been dressing in underwear of the opposite sex “for years.”

“The puberty-blocking drugs work best at the beginning of the pubital process, typically age 10 to 12 for a girl and 12 to 14 for a boy,” he said…He said such treatments not only change the physical characteristics of the growing children, but also could leave them sterile for life.

“You have to explain to the patients that if they go ahead, they may not be able to have children. … But if you don’t start treatment, they will always have trouble fitting in,” he said.

“This isn’t conjecture,” Mass Resistance’ commentary said. “It’s happening now. And ‘transgenderism’ is being promoted to kids by homosexual/transgender activists in the public schools.”

Children as young as 12 already have been given the treatment.

Meanwhile, LifeSiteNews has reported that Spack previously acknowledged that only about 20 percent of children who claim to have a confusion over their gender hold those feelings in adulthood.

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