Land Use, Refuse, and Demographic Change

Nations must preserve their people to preserve their environments

Mar 20, 2024

Mass immigration and demographic change are fueling the rapid destruction of the environmental beauty that Western nations have worked so hard to preserve. Rolling fields, productive farmland, forests, and even national parks have been paved over to make way for a wave of housing expansion largely fuelled by non-White population increase.

The current situation:

1. Land Loss

Since 1990 the United States has seen its non-White population increase by 74 million individuals, while the White populace has increased by just nine million people. As a result of this rapid demographic change and expansion America is losing valuable land, and fast. Roughly 2 million acres of prime agricultural land was lost to urban development in the United States in 2022. Since 2002 some 50 million acres of farmland have been paved over for housing expansions and urban development. The nation also lost 4.22 million acres of forested lands in 2021 and has lost a total of 104 million acres of forest cover since 2001. Put another way, the United States has lost 15% of its forest cover since 2001.

The US Forest Service paints an even grimmer picture as it highlights the fact that nearly 30 million housing units have been constructed within 30 miles of national parks and wilderness areas, severely impacting their environmental integrity. While other housing developments, some still in planning and others already confirmed, threaten to destroy the views and water resources of valued national parks.

2. Waste

The population of the United States is also producing more garbage than 30 years ago overwhelmingly due to demographic change and behaviors linked to race. Between 1990 and 2018 the EPA reports that the American population went from producing some 208.3 million tons of waste (what the EPA refers to as MSW) to some 292.4 million tons more in solid wastes. An increase of some 84.1 million tons of waste.

These numbers indicate that for each increase in the US population of 1 million individuals, an additional 1.01 million tons of waste is produced annually and that non-White demographic change is responsible for a staggering 88% of the growth in waste production in the United States. Additionally, Studies in Britain and Canada have found that non-Whites are much less likely to recycle while the Harvard School of Public Health shows that non-Whites have much higher usage of plastics than White populations.

3. Housing (and land loss)

And while American cities and towns are forced to use valuable land for landfills and other disposal purposes the United States is losing far more land as it becomes necessary to house this booming non-White populace. The share of Americans who live in the sprawling suburbs has changed markedly in the past 30 years. Suburban homes and lots, which account for the lion’s share of expansion, average roughly 13, 896 square feet, while city lots can be anywhere from 8,000 to 1,100 square feet, leaving a much smaller impact on the land.

In 1990 some 73% of White Americans resided in areas categorized as suburban, and by 2020 that number had increased just three points, to 76%. In that same period, the White population has only increased by 9 million, meaning Whites have had a limited impact.

Meanwhile, the non-White population has increased rapidly, as aforementioned, and shifted from living in the urban areas of the United States once inhabited by Whites and into suburbs themselves.

In 1990 there were 6.9 million Asians in the United States and just 53.4% resided in suburbs. Today more than 24 million Asians are living in the US and 63.1% now reside in suburbs. This trend is only expected to worsen as the Asian population in the United States is expected to double to 46 million people by the year 2060, and this is most likely a gross underestimate.

Hispanics too have shifted from urban living to suburban life at the same time their population has rapidly expanded. In 1990 under half (49.5%) of the 22.4 million Hispanics in the United States lived in land-hungry suburbs, but by 2020 61.4% of the country’s 63.6 million Hispanics resided within the sprawl. And for Black Americans, only 36.6% of the 30 million Blacks in the US resided in suburbs in 1990. As of 2020 some 54.3% now reside in a suburb.

Tens of millions of non-Whites have taken up living in recently developed housing units on once productive and beautiful natural landscapes and displaced White communities in the process. There is even a New York Times article that openly brags about non-White immigration turning paving over agricultural land and small towns in Virginia and turning the state into a deep left-oriented stronghold against the wishes of the commonwealth’s founding White stock.

What can be done?

The key to stopping and ultimately reversing the environmental decline of the West is to stop and ultimately reverse the ongoing Great Replacement. No amount of novel urban planning, social programs, or incentive structures will reverse the behaviors present in groups that do not value the environment like Whites do.

Similarly, diversity will only continue to drive various racial groups into enclaves outside of major melting-pot cities and force Whites to continue to move further and further out, continually abandoning areas that they have inhabited for centuries.

The Great Replacement must be reversed and a Great Repatriation must begin.