Thomas Jefferson proposed that every American enjoy, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Back in 1776, that meant food, shelter, a rich and rewarding family-life, spiritual awakening, employment and creative expression.

 

High-speed, high-stress life- is that what YOU want ?

 

In the 21st century, another phrase becomes more important in our high speed- high stress lives. "Quality of life" surfaced in the American lexicon in the last twenty years. Why? Because we started growing too much, moved too fast and suffered accelerating consequences.

 

For those of you who remember the 1950s and 60s, no one ever heard about gridlock traffic, air pollution, species extinction, global warming, overpopulation, zip codes, cell phones, computers or drugs. Most guys knew every make, model and year of our cars. Choices included Chevy, Plymouth, Ford, Chrysler and some strange little Japanese import called a Datsun.

 

In 1965, Elvis Presley drove Cadillac convertibles while John Wayne assured us that the 'good guys' always wore white hats. Jimmy Durante clowned on TV while Frank Sinatra crooned in Vegas. Los Angeles enjoyed Sunset Strip, Route 66 and Hollywood. California sported 16 million people.

 

That was then; this is NOW

 

Forty years later, California sports 37.5 million high stressed, high speed, road raging, cell phone talking, grid locked traffic victims, 1.5 hour commutes, air polluted, gang infested towns and cities. That's for starters! California adds 40 million people by 2050.

 

Would anyone reading this series say that the quality of life in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, New York City, Detroit, Miami, Houston, and our nation's capital- or any other multiple million populated city- measures up to something envisioned by our founders as reasonable and appropriate?

 

This week, I spent four days in Washington, DC at the <http://www.fairus.org/>www.fairus.org "Hold Their Feet to the Fire" conference, where 35 national radio hosts and hundreds of their esteemed guests (including yours truly) spoke to millions of listeners concerning the illegal alien migration invasion. If I could get a literary handle on the East Coast, I'd say, "too many people, too many cars, too much noise, stinky, too many accidents and unbelievable grid locked traffic"- just for starters!

 

In truth, D C took my breath away.

 

I am astounded at how people hit the expressways at 4:30 A.M., daily, to beat the rush hour. I jumped on the Metro Subway at Shady Grove 30 miles out of Washington, DC. By the time I reached Union Station, I felt like a sardine crammed into a tin.

 

Unpleasant, unhealthy, obnoxious and insufferable! As I stepped off the subway, little old ladies tried to run me over on their rush to the escalator. I felt like a cork being swept away in a human ocean of people. Every metropolitan arena features maddening crowds and endless congestion.

 

The traffic within and around our cities grows to crisis gridlock levels. What's the latest plan to alleviate the beltways around our cities? Engineers plan to build second beltways around the first beltways- some are already done!

 

The future will bring more overcrowding, unless-

 

Where does it all lead as we add 100 million more people? What about quality of life? What about 'peace of mind ?' First, a reminder- with thanks to Wikipedia;

 

Overpopulation is the condition of any organism's numbers exceeding the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity>carrying capacity of its <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_niche>ecological niche. In common parlance, the term usually refers to the relationship between the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population>human population and its <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment>environment, the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth>Earth.

 

Overpopulation is not simply a function of the size or density of the population, but rather the number of individuals compared to the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource>resources (for example, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_production>food production or <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_resources>water resources) and "personal space" needed for healthy survival or well-being.

 

Are these simple examples "good things?"

 

Please, stop for a moment and close your eyes as you consider our current dilemma. Have you noticed the little advantages we lose as we overpopulate ?

 

You must dial all 10 digits for local phone calls today because of our massive population overload in our cities- some areas have five area codes.

Commuters added 20 minutes to commute time in the past 15 years. They can expect to add another 20 minutes in the coming 10 years. It's not uncommon in many states for 1.5 hour commute times.

In some regions you are already expected to make reservations by lottery for our national parks- within 20 years, we will all be doing that because too many people want to visit a limited space.

For those who want to ride a raft down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon- that lottery takes 10-12 years to gain a permit.

As highways overload with another 100 million people, your chances of making it to and from your destination erode dramatically- with more risk. Currently, 44,000 people die from traffic accidents every year, and half a million are maimed to one degree or another in "accidents." Those numbers grow exponentially as we add 100 million people.

The "quality-time" that nourishes each of us diminishes; we suffer that loss.

 

I'm certain you can enumerate another 50 examples of the loss of quality of life from your neck of the woods.

 

Change can be planned-managed, and strategies chosen sensibly

 

Wikipedia continues to help us as we allow the magnitude and depth of the personal impacts to sink in here;

 

In the context of human societies, overpopulation occurs when the population density is so great as to actually cause an impaired quality of life, serious environmental degradation, and/or long-term shortages of essential goods and services. This is the definition used by popular dictionaries such <http://m-w.com/dictionary/overpopulation>Merriam-Webster.  

 

Overpopulation is not merely an imbalance between the number of individuals compared to the resources needed for survival, or a ratio of population over resources, or a function of the number or density of individuals, compared to the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource>resources (i.e. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_production>food production) they need to survive. 

 

It is rather a situation of shortage of resources and elbow-room that must be caused by population, and not by other factors. This is because such an imbalance may be caused by any number of other factors such as bad governance, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War>war, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption>corruption or endemic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty>poverty.

 

Each human-crowding factor is felt by human beings as an agitation, a gnawing and bothersome affect that is difficult to describe- until you venture to a pristine natural area, and begin to breathe deeply. Then, you remember what you really want, and don't.

 

Please ask yourself; why are we choosing to drift aimlessly into this overcrowding?

 

Are we squeezing together to make room for the unfortunates of the world who have overpopulated themselves into a squeeze-play of their own choosing?

 

Strategic Planning works!

 

It may startle you to learn a basic truth; those nations already manifest what we move toward. They planned no strategy for gentle population balancing, and neither do we.

 

What are we thinking ?

 

In this fragile Republic that we call the United States, we participate in a grand experiment. Until recently, the ride proved fun. Of late, the elbow room to play diminishesalong with our creative-competitive energies.

 

Our family lives take a severe beating, unnecessarily.

 

What can YOU do to shift the course?

 

Is it reasonable to ask; when was the last time YOU dropped in to visit the staff in the office of your Member of the U.S. Congress to chat about rampant population explosion, and how that phenomenon harms your quality of life? Did you plan your visit, and prepare a list of "suggestions" to leave there?

 

Your senator and House member entertain scores of visitors every month- nice folks who lobby FOR more and more people to join us. Why do they do that? Quite simple; because the members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce employ them to do that lobbying, and pay them well.

 

You and your fellow-passengers in the "U.S. Section" aboard Spaceship-Earth have a responsibility to "help" your elected and appointed representatives to maintain an even keel. Without your active participation, your leaders will sell-out to big business. You respond, "They won't do anything!" Okay, then you run for Congress! You become the change agent.

 

How can you turn the horses and reign-in the unchecked population growth? Is your 'peace-of-mind' and optimized quality-of-life worth the effort?

 

Do you owe that healthy legacy to your children?

What you can do for a better future for your country:

A republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do everything for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North Korea and other unsavory examples.

To stop Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from giving an amnesty, take action.

CALL Nancy Pelosi: Washington, DC - (202) 225-4965

San Francisco, CA - (415) 556-4862 ; Email Nancy Pelosi

sf.nancy@mail.house.gov ; Email form for Nancy Pelosi; http://www.house.gov/pelosi/contact/contact.html

Senator Harry Reid: 202 224 3121 in Washington DC

775 686 5750 in Reno, NV;

George Bush

1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20500

comments@whitehouse.gov

Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard for live listener: 202 456 1414

Fax: 202-456-2461

We must 'sour the milk.' Bring out your points in the call:

1. America cannot support another 100 million people added to our country in 34 years, i.e., water crisis, resource depletion, air pollution, gridlock, loss of quality of life, etc.

2. America cannot support lawbreakers being given citizenship.

3. America must maintain our English language.

4. America wants only legal immigrants who play by the rules and speak English.

5. America's working poor deserve a chance at jobs taken by illegals.

6. America already has too many people and I support a 10 year moratorium on all immigration.

7. Americans must maintain our schools for our children.

8. We can no longer tolerate 350,000 birthright citizens (anchor babies) annually that subtract from our own citizens.

9. Attrition through enforcement by stopping their ability to wire money home, obtain rental housing and jobs.

10. An amnesty failed in 1986, and it will only be worse today. We're being displaced out of our jobs and out of our own country. Call with relentless and never-give-up passion.

To reduce illegal aliens in your community, you may follow the course of action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA. He offers a bomb proof ordinance that takes business licenses away from those who hire illegals. He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals. Without work and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your community. Check out his website for instructions: www.SmallTownDefenders.com/public/node/6

Visit D.A. King at the www.thedustininmansociety.org to see how Georgia created the best laws to stop illegals at the state level.

Please check out William Gheen at www.alipac.us. He's a mover and shaker. He will direct you to specific actions that make you more powerful and effective.

To stop this invasion locally and nationally: join www.numbersusa.com for free and you can join www.fairus.org and www.thesocialcontract.com

Wooldridge presents a 45 minute program to colleges, high schools, civic clubs, church groups and political clubs across America titled: "COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." Go to his website for further information on booking the program. www.frostywooldridge.com

Check out www.populationmedia.org for an exciting method for creating overpopulation awareness in Third World countries. Their prime directive works with the media in order to educate and activate leaders and women worldwide.

Whether we like it or not, global warming is upon us. We can take action to correct it. Please join www.stopglobalwarming.org for up to the minute information and action items.

Awareness Campaign web site, www.mcs-global.org, which is purely to help save and protect human health and environmental health globally. Diana Buckland is founder and global coordinator at diana@mcs-global.org or dbucklan@bigpond.net.au. Diana makes impact all over the world by alerting everyone about chemical sensitivities caused by poisons sprayed, injected and applied to our crops and elsewhere.

From Part 5 of this series, "Destroying our oceans", if you would like to become involved please refer to <http://www.savetheoceans.org/>www.savetheoceans.org for a first rate lesson on how to take action in order to cleanse our oceans, restock our fish population, move toward recycling and cleanup of our world's most important living resource. Watch shows on PBS that expose where we threw two million tires into the waters off the East Coast and all the damage those tires are doing to marine life. You'll find out what you can do to have them raised from the deep. Additionally, check out www.greenpeace.org for actions at the national and international levels.

www.21stCenturyPaulRevereRide.us ; www.numbersusa.com ; www.carryingcapacity.org ; www.balance.org ; www.thesocialcontract.com

www.alipac.us at 1 866 329 3999; www.theamericanresistance.com ; www.ccir.net ; www.theByteShow.com ;  www.projectusa.org ; www.borderguardians.org ; www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; www.mothersagainstillegalaliens.org ; www.unitedpatriotsofamerica.com ; www.unitedstates.fm ; www.worldfreedomtour.info ; My book: "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES" Call: 1 888 280 7715. http://www.TiANews.com ­ www.victimsofillegalaliens.org ; www.pacinlaw.org; http://USABorderAlert.com/http://SanDiegoBorderAlert.com ; for motorcyclists:

www.americanfreedomriders.com and www.immigrationbuzz.com ;

www.mcs-global.org ; On April 1, 2007, the Paul Revere Riders will again ride to stop the illegal invasion and accompany Arizona long haul truckers and motorcyclists in a freedom border ride to block illegal aliens from crossing our borders. We invite all veterans, truckers and bikers to join us. Contact Rusty Childress at www.immigrationbuzz.com and www.americanfreedomriders.com for further information. Please write with your ideas on what to name the ride.

Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. He presents a program to colleges, conferences, high schools and civic clubs around the country: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT". His published books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE" ; "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES" ; "MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND-A TEEN NOVEL" ; "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION" ; "AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA". His next book: "TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP". He lives in Denver, Colorado. frostyw@juno.com  

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