- "Somehow, we have come to think the whole purpose
of the economy is to grow, yet growth is not a goal or purpose. The pursuit
of endless growth is suicidal." David Suzuki
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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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- From 1964 to 2006, the United States, via mass immigration,
grew from 193 million to 300 million. It added over 100 million people
in a 40 year span. Today, America stands at 312 million people in 2011.
It adds 3.1 million people annually. It races toward adding 100 million
people by 2035-a scant 24 years from now.
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- In many ways, the American public cannot fathom its own
critical condition as to overpopulation. Americans charged onto the North
American continent with unlimited topsoil, trees, fresh water, resources
and unimaginable spaces.
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- If truth be told, the Native Americans kept it perfectly
intact for thousands of years of ecological balance and harmony. They also
kept their own numbers in equilibrium with nature. Birds, ducks, geese,
deer and buffalo numbered in the millions while clear skies and crystal
clean streams offered unlimited food, shelter and clothing.
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- But starting in 1850, Europeans fled from potato famines,
wars and diseases to stampede into America by the millions. They brought
horses, farms, locomotives, chemicals, booze, diseases, factories and the
Industrial Revolution with them. They blasted, mined, poisoned and trashed
the national landscape. If you look along America's highways, lakes, streams
and farms, you will see billions of pieces of trash and dumps covering
the land. Americans individually or collectively show no responsibility
for picking up after themselves.
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- Over the last 150 years, Americans enjoyed no end to
water, energy and resources. A sense of cultural entitlement runs through
this society with the idea that all these resources available today will
be there tomorrow.
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- A CULTURAL PARADIGM OF NO END TO PLENTY OF EVERYTHING
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- Four things operate in the American mind in the 21st century:
1. Religion promotes "Go forth multiply and take dominion over the
land." 2. Capitalism promotes unlimited growth, production and consumption-that
demands ever increasing human population expansion. 3. No limits to water,
energy and resources. 4. Technology will solve any problem.
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- Man! Are we in for a rude awakening or what?! One look
at one billion humans living in misery and squalor around the planet today
renders a hint and harbinger as to America's future.
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- Jared Diamond's book, Collapse: How societies choose
to fail or succeed, offers a sobering reality check to those four aforementioned
myths. "In his brilliantly written Collapse, Diamond examines
in fascinating historic detail why past societies succeeded or failed.
He then connects these stories to troubling scenes from 21st century
in Rwanda, Australia, China and Montana-and extracts practical lessons
for a world that desperately needs to redefine progress." James R.
Karr
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- As it stands today, Australia may be the first "First
World" country that exceeds its carrying capacity. With 96 percent
of that continent covered in desert sand, it lacks water and arable soil.
A new book, Overloading Australia, by Mark O'Connor and William
Lines, points out the obvious facts that Australia cannot support its current
21 million population let alone its immigration-driven projections to add
20 million by mid century. Additionally, it suffers accelerating carbon
emissions and unsustainable ecological footprint dilemmas-that can only
worsen with population growth.
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- Another book, The Collapse of Complex Societies,
by Dr. Joseph Tainter, illustrates how highly multifaceted civilizations
fail. If not for the 70 percent importation of oil burned in the US daily,
our civilization would fall within days. Astoundingly, U.S. leaders push
for population growth by pressing for more immigration.
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- Ironically, those immigrants flee already overloaded
civilizations that expand by 78 million annually. Startlingly, no one
possesses the ability to connect the dots at the national, local or personal
levels. Societal ethnocentrism!
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- In "On American Sustainability-Anatomy of a societal
collapse", by Chris Clugston, "Most Americans believe that we
are 'exceptional'-both as a society and as a species. We believe that
America was ordained through divine providence to be the societal role
model for the world. We believe through our superior intellect, we can
harness and even conquer nature in our continuous quest to improve the
material living standards associated with our ever-increasing populationwe
now find ourselves in a predicament. We are irreparably overextended-living
hopelessly beyond our means ecologically and economicallywe are about to
discover that we are another unsustainable society subject to the inescapable
consequences of our unsustainable resource behavior-societal collapse."
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- HOW DID WE GET TO THIS POINT AND AVOIDANCE OF REALITY?
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- Dr. Jack Alpert, www.skil.org, wrote, "Think
better or perform genocide", "When you lower a frog into a pot
of boiling water, it feels the heat and jumps out. When you lower a frog
into a pot of cold water and then place the pot on the stove and heat it,
the frog does not feel the heat, does not jump out, and boils to death.
It appears a frog gathers, processes and values, the available information
well enough to save its life in the first case, but not in the second.
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- "Is it possible that humans think like frogs? When
immersed in our environment, we cannot appreciate our dangerous destination
and cannot identify or change our behavior that would avoid it. Consider
that we are experiencing ever increasing social conflict and cannot see
it. We are experiencing ever diminishing wellbeing and cannot see it.
That our progeny will live an animalistic life near subsistence and we
can't see it."
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- The question I ask: will we awaken as a civilization
before Mother Nature becomes the grim reaper of the 21st century on
a scale far greater than ever experienced in history? It will be up to
the thinkers and doers at this point in time. You are one of them if you're
reading this series.
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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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- "Immigration by the numbers-off the chart"
by Roy Beck
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- This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results
of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability
for future generations: in a word "Mind boggling!" www.NumbersUSA.org
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ
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- This is the best website to start: www.numbersusa.org ;
watch Roy Beck's "Immigration by the Numbers" at 14 minutes.
Bi-partisan and very effective. Become a faxer of pre-written letters to
your reps to make positive change.
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- Visit www.TheSocialContract.com for the best
information on what we face as a civilization as to overpopulation, energy,
immigration and much more.
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- Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; in
Australia www.population.org.au andPublicPopForum@yahoogroups.com;
in Great Britainwww.populationmatters.org ; and dozens of other sites
accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com. In Florida, www.flimen.org .
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- Must see DVD: "Blind Spot" www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/ ,
This movie illustrates America's future without oil, water and other resources
to keep this civilization functioning. It's a brilliant educational movie! www.blindspotdoc.com
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- Must see: Rapid Population Decline, seven minute video
by Dr. Jack Alpert-
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- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0
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- Must see and funny: www.growthbusters.org ; www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
- Dave Gardner's Polar Bear in Bedroom:
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- growthbusters.org/2010/03/save-the-polar-bear-in-your-bedroom ;
Dave Gardner, President, Citizen-Powered Media ; Producing the Documentary, GROWTH
BUSTERS; presents Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity, Join
the cause atwww<http://www.growthbusters.com/>.growthbusters.org
;760 Wycliffe Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 USA; +1 719-576-5565
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- Check out this link with Wooldridge on bicycle and Lester
Brown and panel discussion:
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- www.upnorthmedia.org/watchupnorthtv.asp?SDBFid=1631
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- Tomorrow's Americaproject on www.youtube.com/contemporarylearning.
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- Producer: GEORGE A. COLBURNwww.tomorrowsamerica.com
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- DC: 202-258-4887
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- Email: gac@starbrightmc.com
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- Link to www.tomorrowsamerica.com for more discussions
on America's predicament.
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- FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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- www.starbrightmediacorp.com
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- www.tomorrowsamerica.com
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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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