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By Frosty Wooldridge
At one point in time, humans argued that we lived on a ‘flat’ earth. For a thousand years, the Pope declared the sun revolved around our planet. His pronouncements stood as fact. When Galileo proved the Earth revolved around the sun, he suffered house arrest and name calling for the rest of his life. In the last century, critics said the four minute mile would never be broken. Roger Bannister broke it! At one time 50 years ago, everyone thought it okay to have ‘separate but equal’ drinking fountains for people of color. Dr. Martin Luther King disproved that. Critics called him horrible names.
In all great social change or enlightenment, those that led the paradigm shift suffered name calling. Church officials called Martin Luther a ‘heretic’ to shut him up. Today, if anyone stands against unlawful migration, they suffer names like ‘racist’. If anyone brings up the harsh realities that human overpopulation causes our environmental degradation, those persons suffer name calling like ‘eugenics advocates’ or ‘idiots’.
It proves painfully difficult for entrenched cultures and their citizens to break from disproven myths or paradigms of the past and move into new realities. Like the Pope with Galileo, they kick and scream all the way to the mantle of reality.
In the 21st century, human overpopulation proves THE single greatest crisis facing humanity and all life on this planet. That’s a fact; it’s a growing fact; and it will prove the most dangerous fact facing our existence on this globe.
Today, with accelerating environmental symptoms exploding across the USA and around the world, caused by human overpopulation, we find millions unable to understand or accept the facts of growing consequences.
It’s a mathematical fact that we cannot continue population growth on a finite planet with finite resources.
Thankfully, more and more articulate minds and scientists speak and write about it. By their courage, we might succeed in saving ourselves from our own numbers. We may move toward sane and rational human population stability via birth control, education and family planning.
Thanks to George Plumb for this editorial, published in the Weekly Planet column of the Rutland Herald in Maine. See “The Weekly Planet: It’s the Numbers that count” May 31, 2009; http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090531/ENVIRONMENT/905310335
George Plumb is the executive director of Vermonters for a Sustainable Population and chairman of the New England Coalition for a Sustainable Population.
Plumb continued, “In the last few years three widely different studies have reported that at both the local and global levels – and everything in between – the Vermont environment is not being protected and, in fact, continues to gradually deteriorate. In "Understanding Vermont," published by the Vermont Community Foundation, 10 of the 11 environmental indicators were pointing in the wrong direction. In "Disappearing Vermont," published by Vermonters for a Sustainable Population, 23 of 31 indicators were moving in a negative direction. In "Vermont in Transition," published by the Council on the Future of Vermont, 12 of 21 indicators were deteriorating.”
Those same indicators addressed by Plumb accelerate all over the USA and the planet. Our polluted rains acidify our soils and oceans to create havoc with plankton and fish populations. Species extinction rates grow out of control with human hyper-population growth, but irrational people argue for more growth, more human numbers, more human destruction of the planet’s support systems. Oftentimes, they originate from ancient religions or entrenched political paradigms.
“Arguably the most significant indicator is the amount of land developed, because it also affects other indicators – the loss of farm and forest land, additional greenhouse gas emissions due to heating and the number of vehicle miles traveled, habitat destruction, and storm water runoff,” said Plumb. “Just between the years 1982 and 2003, the years for which data are available, more than 100,000 acres of land were developed in Vermont.”
Across the USA, growing at three million annually, we must destroy 12.6 acres of land for every human added to this country. It’s called the ‘ecological footprint’. That’s how many acres must be destroyed to support each new American. It obliterates habitat for other creatures and wreaks havoc with the natural world. That equals destruction of 3.78 million acres annually.
“As noted environmental writer Gus Speth, the outgoing head of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, says in his most recent book "The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability," "But all in all, today's environmentalism has not been succeeding. We have been winning battles, including some critical ones, but losing the war." Time magazine called Speth the "ultimate insider" because he has served on several environmental boards,” said Plumb. “There are several reasons the environmental movement has been losing the war. The most important is that environmentalists have been focusing on the symptoms of our environmental problems instead of the causes. As just one example, to solve the problem of land development, environmentalists focus on establishing and strengthening laws and regulations restricting development, which is only a partial solution. However, the underlying cause of land development is our cultural insistence on an ever-growing economy, which includes increasing population growth and consumption of natural resources.”
Yet, you will hear vacant voices espousing unlimited human population growth as if God blindly mandates it. At the same time, God or Nature, which might be called the hand of God, causes the death of 18 million humans annually around the planet from starvation. That number of deaths grows year after year, but still the ‘flat earth’ people argue for more human growth. Billions live in utter misery, but still, the ‘flat earth’ people argue for unlimited human population growth.
“With the U.S. population growing by more than three million people per year, any improvements in treating the symptoms – such as tougher regulations, cap and trade, improved conservation and efficiency, and alternative energy development – are going to be cancelled out by the sheer increase in the numbers of people. President Obama's 30 percent increase in fuel efficiency standards of automobiles will be wiped out when the U.S. population grows by 30 percent in the coming decades,” said Plumb. “The environmental community is very fragmented. Most environmental organizations focus only on a few aspects of environmental protection. Some issues, such as landscape beauty, are not being addressed much at all. And these various groups don't seem to be collaborating in any meaningful way to address the root causes of our environmental problems. If environmental organizations could work together and develop a common platform of positions, policies and programs to make real changes, we would have more hope of solving our environmental crisis.
As Gus Speth says, "But it is time for the environmental community – indeed, everyone – to step outside the system and develop a deeper critique of what is going on."
The fact grows: we must move toward a sensible “US Sustainable Population Policy” that encourages two child families, resource protection, living within our carrying capacity, alternative energy, organic farming methods, water usage policy, pollution mitigation and a dozen other aspects that might allow the human race a viable future in the 21st century.
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To take action: First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!
Second, join www.thesocialcontract.com for up to date information via the Social Contract Quarterly. Exceptional publication to keep you informed.
www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ; www.capsweb.org ; www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; LimitsToGrowth.org
America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans by Frosty Wooldridge. This book exposes every aspect and ramification of adding 100 million people to the United States within 30 years. Clear, concise and well researched. Solutions given to change course for a sustainable civilization. Order: 1 888 280 7715 or www.amazon.com ; www.barnesandnoble.com
Visit this site for a rendition of Colorado Governor Lamm’s speech: “How to Destroy America”
http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm
In Canada: Tim Murray,
Director Immigration Watch Canada www.immigrationwatch.org
Vice President Biodiversity First http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com/index.htm
Blog http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com
Watch the DVD movie: “Blind Spot”—Exceptional movie with top scientists candidly discussion what we face as a civilization if we continue on our hyper-population growth path. www.blindspotdoc.com
Please visit Annie Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com for a compelling and highly interesting 20 minute video concerning our high consumption, highly wasteful and unsustainable society. She educates and provides avenues for you to make a difference.
Visit this web site by Chris Martenson: http://www.chrismartenson.com/environmental_data
In Colorado: visit www.soprisfoundation.org for information how you can network with like-minded folks to create a more sustainable future for Colorado and other states.
View CNN’s “Planet in Peril” with Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/
Ghost of Thomas Paine—compelling video of common sense
http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: D.C.: (202)224-2854 comment@whitehouse.gov
Main line 202-456-1414
Leg Affairs: 202-456-2230
Books to read: “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler
“Peak Everything” by Richard Heinberg
“Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant
Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en
Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.
Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.
Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on “Audio/Video” tab
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
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