THE average American emits five times as much carbon dioxide as a Mexican and 20 times as much as the average Indian. So the last thing the planet’s already battered environment needs is more Americans.
That is the argument of a small but vocal faction of the environmental group the Sierra Club, who last week urged the club’s 750,000 members to support a ballot calling for a cut in immigrants to the US, which now stands at around 700,000 a year. The ballot failed, but those who supported it are undeterred. “The size and rate of growth of the American…
