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What Constitutes Overpopulation In America? - Pt 4
Lack Of Enough Clean Water!

By Frosty Wooldridge
10-22-10
 
 
"The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic."  --Harvard scholar and biologist E.O. Wilson
 
Re: Colorado NPR report-"11.5 billion gallon shortage annually predicted" 12/1/09
 
Ironically, everyone demands cleaner air, but don't stop  economic and human growth. Stop gridlock traffic, but don't touch growth. Stop species extinction, but never end growth. Let's stop climate change, but leave growth alone. Stop acid rain, but don't stop growth. Work on alternative energy, but don't stop growth. We insist on lower energy and water prices, but don't stop growth and demand. Let's conceive of every 'green solution', but don't ever stop growth!
 
In other words, let's attempt to solve our energy, water and climate change predicament by dealing with a pyramid of effects, but doing nothing to address the root cause. That's like a three pack a day smoker that wants his lung cancer cured, but he said, "I am willing to try any solution to cure my lung cancer as long as you don't tell me to stop smoking."
 
While the United States stands at 310 million, it adds 8,100 people net gain daily. The US adds 3.1 to 3.4 million annually on our way to adding 100 million net gain by 2035 and another 38 million to hit 438 million by 2050-a total of 138 million added humans.  Unfortunately, Mother Nature does not rain or snow more, nor does she create more ground water-just to water and feed that extra 138 million. On top of that, U.S. Census Bureau projections show us doubling to 600 million by 2070 or sooner.
 
Additionally, world population projections show humans adding 1.0 billion humans every 13 years! That's a whopping 3.0 billion humans more stomping around on this planet by mid century. What do they all need to live and eat? Water!
 
But today, 1.0 billion humans cannot obtain one clean glass of drinking water daily. The natural consequences: Result: 10 million children starvation deaths and eight million adult starvation deaths annually. (Source: World Health Organization)
 
Back in the USA-we seem to think we remain immune to overpopulation as to water supplies. We would be VERY wrong with that assumption!
 
Atlanta, Georgia maxed out its water carrying capacity four years ago, but with its current 8.2 million, the Peach State expects to double to 16.4 million within four decades. "Hey buddy; can you spare me a dimeI mean, glass of water?"
 
Florida drilled so many wells; they suffer sink holes up and down the peninsula. Yet, they keep building homes and malls. Dumb and dumber! They expect to grow from 18 million to 36 million in less than 40 years.
 
Colorado Public Radio announced on Monday, 12/1/09, that Colorado faces grave water shortages in the coming decades. We can expect an 11.5 billion gallon annual shortfall. With predicted population growth of five to six million by mid century, (Source: Fogel/Martin "US Population Projections") Colorado cannot and will not be able to maintain water supplies for humans let alone animals and crops. Mark Koebrich at Channel 9, Denver, NBC News, announced that Denver expects to add two million residents in the coming years.
 
While Colorado adds 100,000 new residents annually, net gain, America's overpopulation poster-child State of California adds 1,700 people net gain daily on their way to adding 20 million in 30 years! They add 400 vehicles 24/7! Where do those millions come from? They flee other overpopulated countries from around the globe. Immigration fuels 90 percent of California's population growth.
 
The Colorado River water provides "dry-as-a-bone" states like Arizona, Nevada and California with water that won't materialize with their population growth in the near future.
 
 
That's like a 400 pound obese man suffering from heart disease being told to go on a diet, but all he does is let out four more notches on his belt!
 
Ironically, National Public Radio will report on the consequences of overpopulation, but they NEVER mention the root cause. Why not? What for? How come?
 
Since the American female averaged 2.03 children since 1970, our own citizens do not cause population growth, so what does? How did we add 100 million people in the past 40 years?
 
Simple: legal and illegal immigration, including their offspring.
 
How will we add the expected 100 million by 2035, which equals 25 years from now? Again, immigration!
 
 
S+R=O: Situation plus response=outcome
 
 
Cause and effect equal results. If we keep adding population, we cannot keep expanding our finite resources such as water, energy and space. Thus, everything you read about occurring around the world such as starvation and poverty will, at some point, manifest in the United States. No way around it!
 
As a civilization, we cannot escape S+R=O or cause and effect equals result.
 
Do we think we can escape our growing consequences? Apparently! Every governor and businessman in this country advocates growth. Our U.S. Congress injects 2.5 million more people into the USA annually from a line of people growing by 77 million annually worldwide. Americans project from 'past' emotional paradigm that 'immigration' built this country.
 
In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, "Immigration, Poverty, and Gum balls", Roy Beck, director of NumbersUSA.org, dispels the 'theory' that immigration helps other countries. In fact, it destroys their ability to better themselves while it creates havoc within host countries. Take five minutes to see for yourself:
 
Listen up folks; our ancestors thought we lived on a flat Earth! They thought the sun rotated around the Earth, etc.
 
Let's create new paradigms for the 21st century. Let's push for a "U.S. Stabilized Population Policy"; "U.S. Conservation Water Usage Policy" and "U.S. Energy Policy". Nationally, a "U.S. Sustainable Immigration Policy of 100,000 or less Annually."
 
 
No need to add 100 million to the USA!  No benefit and only serious consequences will result. We need to shift paradigms toward a sustainable future. For an outstanding video of our 'predicament', visit albartlett.org.
 
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." Dr. Al Bartlett
 
 
Dr. Bartlett has given his celebrated lecture, "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" over 1,600 times. His collected writings have been published in the book, The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet.
 
"Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?" --Dr. Albert Bartlett
 
 
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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 He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715
 

 
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