| DEAR ENVIRONMENTALLY CONCERNED MEMBERS OF NUMBERSUSA, PBS's veteran broadcaster Bonnie Erbe ("To The Contrary") knows from long experience that NumbersUSA members are among the nation's most interested citizens in issues of environmental sustainability. She has produced an award-winning TV series about the connection between immigration and environmental issues. And she has asked us to make the DVD of this series available to you free of charge. Just request the DVD in an email to this address: Be sure to give your postal mailing address. Most importantly, this is a chance for you to use this DVD to educate friends, family and all kinds of civic and political groups about the importance of reducing immigration to a level that will allow for U.S. population stabilization and environmental sustainability. This series has some teeth in it, focusing especially on diminishing farmland and East Coast water shortages. The farmland piece features some familiar NumbersUSA faces (Roy Beck and myself). We encourage you to contact PBS and request one of the free DVDs. Here is the press release on the series and this offer:
PBS' To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe
Offers free public education campaign on
Immigration's impact on the nation's farmland and water supplies. (Washington, D.C.) -- The PBS program, To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe is partnering with NumbersUSA to distribute 3500 free DVD copies of a public education campaign on immigration's impact on dwindling, but precious natural resources: farmland and water supplies. To the Contrary took an in-depth documentary-style look at two major environmental problems: diminishing farmland and East Coast water shortages. These are relatively new environmental problems and driven by recent large increases in U.S. population. Population increases, in turn, are driven largely by immigration as the fertility for native-born women is at replacement level. In its reporting, To the Contrary found that not only is the United States losing millions of acres of farmland to development each year, but the farmland that is being developed is prime farmland, with much larger natural yields of the best produce than the non-prime farmland left undeveloped. The DVDs also show that America's prime farmland is so over-developed, the nation runs the risk of being food-insecure and relying too heavily on imports that could be disrupted. On water shortages, the program reported that East Coast water shortages, such as the one that took place in Atlanta earlier in this decade, was caused by too many people relying on a finite natural resources. The program interviewed scientists and climatologists who predicted East Coast shortages will become more frequent and more severe, and ongoing shortages in the West will continue as more and more people rely on the already-low Colorado River (the main source of water for 7 Southwestern states) for water. Among the experts interviewed for both pieces was NumbersUSA founder Roy Beck. NumbersUSA's Anne Manetas participated in the panel discussion that followed the diminishing farmland piece. Please e-mail requests for this important educational material to: dvds@tothecontrary.org. We will then mail free DVD copies of the two segments to you to share with your community. Please explain why you want the DVD and who else will view it with you. Only the first 3500 requests can be fulfilled. Please check local PBS stations for airtime of To the Contrary in your area.
To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe is in its nineteenth season and can be seen on PBS stations in 90% of TV markets nationwide. For more information, visit the To The Contrary website at www.tothecontrary.org | 
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