Calling on Immigration for Climate and Politics

The article from a Sievi, Finland newspaper, accompanying this photo, was most likely from the very early 1950s and is about my grandmother Anna Tuomi cutting hay with a scythe – the image is highly pixilated, but she appears to be sharpening the scythe with a handheld grindstone. The article talks about her doing this laborious farm chore after having had 15 children – 11 girls and 4 boys. This was in a day and age when more children meant more acreage could be farmed and the potential for perhaps some profitability. My grandfather and her husband Frans, had several children with a previous wife as well, so there was no shortage of aunts and uncles. Frans’ first wife died.

I suspect that one of the reasons for the abundance of children bore by my grandparents was the anticipation and desire for more males. A male was much more beneficial and helpful in assisting with the farm. More masculine help meant more acreage that could be farmed and the ability for keeping additional livestock.

Today’s birthrate as I describe in a recent article is certainly not like the labor-intensive days of Anna and Frans Tuomi. Yet, the experts in economic proficiency contend that, while children in the double digits may be highly excessive, the muted birthrate today will assuredly have detrimental consequences on the economy, especially in the future.

According to Bill McKibben, a radical climate change fear monger, who I wrote about in an article entitled Practicing Climate Apathy, it’s not solely about numbers in the birthrate, but who is making the babies. He writes in the progressive LA Times an article called, “Immigration reform -- for the climate”.

Inserting tribalism into the equation, McKibben seems to abhor the white American-born citizen and prefers the onslaught of immigrants, legal, illegal, or otherwise. McKibben says he wants “Immigration Reform”, which in the progressive precincts means an immediate path to citizenship irrespective of the method or manner of arrival. He states, “It’s one reason I feel it’s urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to step out of the shadows and onto a broad path toward citizenship.” In this last sentence, the word ‘broad’ in McKibben’s world can be translated as very lax or overly lenient.

McKibben claims that while immigrants will generate a larger carbon footprint in the United States, unlike their country of origin, they will not be pressured into having more and more children. He unabashedly prefers Latino immigrants and seems to lean in favor of the crossing Mexican population.

McKibben notes that “Latinos were eager for environmental progress. Seventy-seven percent of Latino voters think climate change is already happening, compared with just 52% of the general population; 92% of Latinos think we have “a moral responsibility to take care of God’s creation here on Earth.” In this matter, 100% of the population should know and acknowledge that the climate is changing as it has naturally since the beginning of time whether one believes in Genesis, the Big Bang, or the the Darwinian Amoeba.

McKibben’s statistics elude to a survey by the Sierra Club a fundamentalist environmental organization and the prejudicial National Council of La Raza, the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. I suspect there may be some distortion as well as prejudgment and predisposition in the published percentages.

Naturally, McKibben clearly makes it a political issue, stating, “Election after election, native-born and long-standing citizens pull the lever for climate deniers”, but also suggests that climate change refuters are motivated by the funding received from oil barons. In that matter, I await my very first check – hopefully with significant retroactive pay. Nonetheless, the hoax, political deception, and lies of climate change are a worthy pursuit even if the lengthy quest is gratuitous.

What a lot of people do not understand, and McKibben is certainly among them, is that Latinos, for the most part, are deeply religious and in that respect inherit many of the spiritual Christian convictions and doctrines of conservatives, yet it is the eco-elites and eco-politicians that shun the population of piety for following God’s command specifically in Genesis 1:28 which states, “ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”