Forsaking Fundamentals
The Environmental Establishment
Abandons U.S. Population Stabilization

By Leon Kolankiewicz and Roy Beck
Center Paper 18, March 2001


Table of Contents

Executive Summary
Reviewing the Rejected "Foundational Formula" of 1970-Era Environmentalism

Population Issues and the 1970-Era Environmental Movement

The Missing Issue in Environmental Journalism

Why the Change?

Population, Immigration, and the Environment: Why Environmentalists Avoid the Connection

Turning a Deaf Ear to Environmentalist Trailblazers and a Blind Eye to Demographic Projections



About the Authors

Leon Kolankiewicz is an environmental/natural resource consultant and a former vice president of Carrying Capacity Network.

Roy Beck is the Director of NumbersUSA.com and author of The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. Immigration Back to Traditional Levels (W.W. Norton & Co., 1996).