- "Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy
West not to stem the migrant tide [that adds 80 million net gain annually
to the planet], but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their
horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all-ten billion humans packed
onto an ecologically devastated planet." Dr. Otis Graham, Unguarded
Gates
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- In October of 2011, the 7th billion human being will
land on this planet. From that threshold, humans will continue multiplying
by 1.0 billion every 13 years to reach more than 10 billion within 39 years
at the mid century. The ramifications stagger the mind of any thinking
American. This series will give you an idea of what our civilization faces.
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- The United States adds 8,490 people, net gain, every
day of the year. That equals 3.1 million annually. That equates to 100
million added by 2035 at current immigration-driven growth rates.
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- Ironically, since 1970, American females enjoyed an average
birth rate of 2.03 children. The great "Zero Population Growth"
message of the 60s made an impact, but, to counter it with more people,
in 1965,Congress passed a sweeping mass immigration bill that remains in
force today. That bill added 100 million people to the USA within 40 years.
And, true to form, 100,000 immigrants land on American soil every 30 days
without pause, 12 months a year, year in and year out, decade in and decade
out.
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- While we grapple with accelerating environmental, bloated
cities and quality of life issues, not to mention water and energy-we continue
adding more and more millions of people without a clue or a plan as to
what to do when we max out and exceed our carrying capacity. In fact,
we already exceed it beyond anyone's comprehension as you will see in this
series.
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- At the University of Colorado, Dr. Albert Bartlett said,
"Can you think of any problem, on any scale, from microscopic to global,
whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way, aided, assisted, or
advanced, by having continued population growth-at the local level, the
state level, the national level, or globally?"
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- Doesn't anyone find it astounding if not exasperating
that America's political leaders, environmental groups, academics, scientists
and citizens fail to address hyper-population growth within this country?
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- How about the fact that top newspapers like the New York
Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal, Christian Science
Monitor, Dallas Morning News as well as Time, Newsweek, Forbes and U.S.
News and World Report-won't print a single article on America's most daunting
and accelerating issue: overpopulation.
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- One reader said, "I know! It stuns me that the "human
numbers" issue is so OFF everyone's radar. And yes, I feel fortunate
I got my turn here on earth before the impact of all this is fully felt."
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- Frighteningly, a Forbes Magazine writer, Joel Kotkin,
wrote a book celebrating the addition of 100 million people. National
Public Radio's Jennifer Ludden wrote a glowing review for the book. A
radio talk show host, Michael Medved, interviewed Kotkin with glowing praise
for his seminal work. Most scientists would say that Kotkin, Ludden and
Medved need to have their heads examined for lack of common sense, rational
thought and ability to work simple math.
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- Instead of dealing with our population dilemma, our media
feeds off the death of Michael Jackson for three months. They rode the
Tiger Woods "Infidelity horse" to its knees. They will find
another 'national trauma' to entertain us ad nausea.
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- CITIES BEYOND REASON AND GROWTH BEYOND UNDERSTANDING
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- What's the ONE aspect of big cities that makes anyone's
blood run cold? What can be said that's wonderful about cities? Crime,
rape, gangs, graffiti, traffic, toxic air and just about everyone lives
in a state of tension-for starters.
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- The late environmentalist John Muir said, "Tell
me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet
security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards
the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made
to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
If the death exhalations that brood the board towns in which we so fondly
compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague.
All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in all of
San Francisco."
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- New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a few years ago
that New Yorkers need to prepare for an additional two million residents-as
if another two million people added to its already gross 8.5 million human
ants crammed into its concrete jungles would make New York an even more
delightful place to live.
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- All the while, monumental environmental predicaments
face every city in America. At the 2009 Copenhagen Conference on climate
change, the brilliant author of, Peak Everything: facing a century
of declines, Richard Heinberg said, "...the discussions in Denmark
took place ina conceptual fantasy world in which climate change is the
only global crisis that matters much; in which rapid economic growth
is still an option; in which fossil fuels are practically limitless; in
which a western middle class staring at the prospect of penury can be persuaded
voluntarily to transfer a significant portion of its rapidly evaporating
wealth to other nations; and in which the subject of human overpopulation
can barely be mentioned... it's no wonder more wasn't achieved in Copenhagen."
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- From our swollen eastern seaboard, let's travel 3,000
miles across America's heartland to the former land of milk and honey:
California. That state, at 38 million people and bursting at its demographic
seams with water shortages, energy problems, toxic air and eternal gridlocked
traffic-adds an extra 1,700 people daily! With that, California adds another
400 vehicles to its already clogged roads each day. It destroys over 250,000
acres of land turned into real estate annually. California adds 600,000
more people annually on its way to adding 20 million more within three
decades. Can you fathom what their children will face in a blink of time?
For more information on how crazy California grows, visit www.capsweb.org with
Dr. Diana Hull.
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- This relentless growth paradigm extends beyond anyone's
understanding.
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- In my world bicycle travels, having seen it up close
and ugly, I must claw my positive attitude back from the abyss of depression
daily. Why? If we allow this "Human Katrina" to manifest, no
one will escape and all will 'deal' with their degraded conditions.
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- In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video,
"Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls", Roy Beck, director ofwww.numbersusa.ORG,
graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes
to see for yourself:
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded
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