Degradation of our Natural Resources

At current rates of use, the non-renewable energy sources, oil, and natural gas will be commercially exhausted by about 2050.

Immigration-generated population growth is a major factor causing an annual loss of more than 2 million acres of prime cropland to development erosion, salinization and water-logging.

Each year, we pave over or convert to developed uses an area of land equal to the size of Delaware.

If current population growth trends continue, the U.S.A. will cease to be able to export food by about the year 2030, thus losing approximately 40 billion annual income from export sales.

Every year U.S. aquifers are being depleted, on average, 25% faster than they are being replaced.

 


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