Ad Campaign Claims Ever-Increasing Traffic Caused by Ever-Increasing Population

Defeats Efforts to Conserve Fuel, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Capacity

SANTA BARBARA – Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) and its partners in America’s Leadership Team for Long Range Population-Immigration-Resource Planning unveiled an ad campaign this week to raise America’s awareness of the effects of population growth. The ads will appear in major national publications.

"If population growth continues at its present pace, our faltering quality of life will continue to erode. Americans won’t be able to conserve their way out of the emerging overpopulation crisis," said Diana Hull, the organization’s President.

"Population growth is decimating the gains that the United States has made in energy conservation and environmental protection. In major metropolitan areas, traffic has descended into perpetual gridlock, and overcrowding strains public schools, hospitals and social services. Water shortages and severe drought imperil tens of millions of Americans. Despite the staggering consequences that Americans endure from rapidly increasing population: cars jamming our roads, out-of-control building and sprawl and vanishing resources, our elected officials continue to fail to make the obvious connections and then act," continued Hull.

The United States now has a population of more than 300 million people, a number that is projected to jump by another 100 million in 30 years. If nothing is done to halt this increase, the U.S. will face a population of 600 million people by the end of this century.

More than 80% of population growth, nationally, will continue to be a direct result of immigration and immigrant births. In California that increase accounts for virtually 100 percent of that growth.

This national ad campaign is the first salvo in a long-term campaign by CAPS and its partners to raise public awareness of the magnitude of growth-inducing problems and their source, to ensure that elected officials and candidates for public office will no longer be able to ignore this most important issue of our time.

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