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Gaylord Nelson,
CCN Board Member, Remembered (cont)
In 1970
Senator Nelson founded Earth Day, which established the beginning
of the modern environmental movement in the United States.
The trend-setting environmentalist never wavered in his concern
for the growing U.S. population's impact on the environment,
and his speeches across the country focused on the threat
of U.S. population growth to environmental sustainability.
In 1995, he was recognized for his efforts to protect the
environment with a Presidential Medal of Freedom presented
by then-President Clinton.
Senator Nelson was
an active member of Carrying Capacity Network's Board of Advisors,
supporting CCN's positions that dramatic immigration reduction
is necessary to achieve U.S. population stabilization to protect
the environment. He was not terribly sympathetic to either
growth management or to immigration management. He realized
that mass immigration reduction was essential, and he said
so at more than one of CCN's conferences at which he was a
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In the 1990's, Senator Nelson was working closely
with Carrying Capacity Network to try to get his former Senate colleagues
to hold hearings on U.S. sustainability. He had convinced several
senators to hold hearings on this topic, but some key members were
defeated in the next election. Undaunted, he continued speaking
and writing about these issues.
Indeed, he was always attempting to learn more about carrying capacity
issues. He noted to a fellow Board member once that he carried audiotapes
of other speakers at CCN conferences in his car so that he could
listen to them as he drove to work.
The loss of Gaylord Nelson will be deeply felt by the Board and
staff of Carrying Capacity Network. We solemnly take this moment
to say farewell to a dedicated and courageous American.
Carrying Capacity Network
www.carryingcapacity.org
Note: CCN is anti-mass immigration
but NOT anti-immigrant.
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