Oh, man, you need to be careful about bringing up the specter of "climate-change denial" like it's going to buttress your point. If the consensus of scientists

Oh, man, you need to be careful about bringing up the specter of "climate-change denial" like it's going to buttress your point. If the consensus of scientists is something you actually respect, we should consider the attitudes of people whose job it is to study this sort of thing. I'll just leave this here for a user-friendly start and some good references on the consensus of economists: http://ew-econ.typepad.fr/articleAEAsurvey.pdf http://ew-econ.typepad.fr/articleAEAsurvey.pdf Spoilers: while I don't see immigration specifically addressed here, "cheap labor" is very, very high on the agenda. Free trade and outsourcing score each score >85% support... and it seems unlikely that the free-trade attitude will evaporate just because it's free trade in labor that we're talking about. The sentiments you've expressed can neatly be construed as another kind of economic protectionism of the sort economists loathe...