Total Environmental Destruction

Urban sprawl continues to be the major cause of deforestation and watershed destruction.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/ 11oct_sprawl.htm?list84324

for information.

Cities engulf the landscape and destroy the land completely. Development replaces fertile soil with trucked in rock and pavement. Nothing will ever grow there again.

Interestingly, sprawl in California is 95% correlated with population growth. In the rest of the country, about half of sprawl is due to population growth and the rest is due to land use decisions.
www.SprawlCity.org

In the U.S., population will double in about 80 years. 90% of this population doubling will be due to mass immigration.
www.numbersUSA.com

In Arizona, our fragile desert wildland reserves are being trashed by illegal aliens, drug runners, and incursions by the Mexican army.

This may be true of the US. Although I would note that forest cover has actually increased over the past century, as the amount of land taken by sprawl is heavily outweighed by land abandoned by farming, and returning to forest.

If you are really aggreived by sprawl, perhpas one should campaign against the thing that makes it possible. Cheap petrol. Bring US prices up to W European prices, and you´ll start to see higher densities of population....ie less sprawl.

Urban sprawl is not the major cause of deforestation world wide. The expansion of low productivity farming is. The answer is to get TW farmers using intensive rather than extrensive systems.

Tim Worstall

Not to mention that those cities mine and grow nothing of which they consume, and manufacture only part of what they consume, so these must be done elsewhere and transported to the cities, vastly exacerbating their negative environmental impact. Their water comes from elsewhere, their trash is sent elsewhere, and most of their energy is produced elsewhere. And where does their pollution go? (that which is not already generated elsewhere). Elsewhere. All of the so-called 'environmental solutions' like hydrogen-powered cars, do nothing but export pollution, they don't eliminate it.