- Most Americans have watched with indolent interest at
the Somalia meltdown of starvation, misery and hopelessness. What I find
ironic is the projections that Africa's 1.1billion population will grow
to 3.1 billion within the next 90 years according to U.N. population projections.
In other words, their mega-starvation-traumas will only become more epic
in this century.
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- I slap my jaw in distress realizing our nation's
president and Congress carry on their inane activities without a clue or
action toward a viable future. A few visionaries like Dr. Albert Bartlett,
former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, Dr. John Tanton, Roy Beck, Barbara
Coe, Dr. Diana Hull, Lester Brown and a growing army of Americans do understand,
however, the power elites drag their feet. Most Americans follow the president
and Congress into our growing immigration mega-trauma.
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- What mentality defines unending immigration
and wars as progress?
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- Short answer: economists, politicians and fools!
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- To support that, Covert Bailey said, "The
brain is entirely made of fat. Without the brain, you might look good,
but all you could do is run for public office!"
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- Author Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of
Complex Societies, demonstrates that collapse is a frequent, if not universal,
fate of multi-faceted societies. Collapse relates to declining returns
on efforts to support growing levels of complexity with diminishing supplies
of energy extracted from the planet.
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- Collapse:
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond, illustrates
how civilizations in the past failed because of resource constraints.
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- By 2050, at our accelerating rate of resource
use and abuse, Jared Diamond's son or grandson might write a book titled: How
the United States Flushed Itself Down the Toilet by Its Own Hand.
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- Additionally, author Richard Heiberg, Peak
Everything: Waking Up To A Century of Declines, lists five axioms
on sustainable or unsustainable civilizations:
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- 1. Joseph Tainter's Axiom:
any society that continues to use critical resources unsustainably will
collapse.
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- 2. Dr. Al Bartlett's Axiom:
population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources
cannot be sustained.
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- 3. To be sustainable, the
use of renewable resources must proceed at a rate that is less than, or
equal to the rate of natural replenishment.
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- 4. To be sustainable, the
use of non-renewable resources must proceed at a rate that is declining,
and the rate of decline must be greater than or equal to the rate of depletion.
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- 5. Sustainability requires
that substances introduced into the environment from human activities be
minimized and rendered harmless to biosphere functions.
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- Do any U.S. leaders present anything resembling
solutions to these factors to maintain a sustainable American future?
The obvious answer: no! We burn 20 million barrels of oil in the USA with
an additional 64 million barrels worldwide per day. We continue consumption
rates beyond our finite resource base. We inject 80,000 chemicals into
the air, water and land daily along with endless plastics tossed into our
oceans.
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- Where do our actions lead?
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- Governor Lamm, a man I know personally and
respect highly, wrote, Megatraumas: America at the Year 2000. He
projected ramifications of our growing consequences from immigration-driven
growth. Even if he was off by a few years, he hit the bull's eye faster
than Deputy Barney Fife could pull out his pistol to stop the bad guys
in Mayberry!
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- "The U.S. economy will be debt-ridden,
with structural unemployment nearing 20 percent," Lamm said. "The
U.S. will have the lowest percentage of capital investment and lowest growth
in productivity and savings of any major industrialized country. The middle
class will be wiped out by these inter-related economic predicaments."
- A quick look at the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,
AIG bailouts in the later part of 2008 proved small potatoes compared to
the $700 billion bailout from the mortgage loan collapse in September of
that year.
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- In 2011, we suffer $14.4 trillion national
debt, $789 billion devastating war debt, 14 million unemployed Americans,
43 million Americans on food stamps, 3 million jobs outsourced, one million
insourced and millions more offshored. We borrow $2 billion daily from
foreign investors to float our economy. Consumers suffer a gargantuan
$2 trillion debt. Our manufacturing base no longer exists and illegal
workers from Mexico create the second largest underground economy in the
world. According to Bear-Stearns Report of 2005, $400 billion in IRS income
taxes go uncollected while American job wage losses exceed $200 billion
annually.
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- "The U.S. has the most expensive and inefficient
health-care system in the world," Lamm said.
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- Because of massive immigration numbers, 86
hospitals and ER wards in California bankrupted in the past five years.
Over 40 million Americans cannot afford health insurance in 2011.
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- "Immigration will be out of control,"
Lamm said. "At a time when the U.S. economy was not creating enough
new jobs for our own citizens, the federal government allowed millions
of legal and illegal immigrants to enter. The Southwest will become another
Hispanic Quebec.
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- "Taking a cue from Castro's success in
1980 when he released thousands of criminals into the hands of Florida,
other countries sent terrorists and criminals across the U.S. borders."
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- "America's educational system will move into a new
Dark Age," Lamm said.
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- In Lamm's state of Colorado, Denver Public Schools suffered
a 67 percent drop out/flunk out rate in June 2005. One of five teachers
quits or transfers out every nine month cycle from the futility of chaotic
classrooms. In California, education turned into a fight for survival
with 100 competing languages, gangs, drugs and racial conflicts. Educators
'warehouse' immigrant children until they dispatch them into our society
at age 18-functionally illiterate.
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- In June 2008, NBC's Brian Williams reported a 76 percent
dropout rate in Detroit, Michigan schools. Dozens of big city school systems
reported similar figures for their failing schools.
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- "About 1.2 million teens hit the job market every
year without a high school diploma," Williams said.
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- Washington Post journalists reported that one
third of the Washington, DC's local population suffered functional illiteracy
while one fifth of mainstream America can't read, write or work simple
math.
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- "America will become a dangerous, crime-infested
country," Lamm said.
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- One look at 2.3 million prisoners in our federal,
state and local jails tells you something amiss in America. Over 15,000
MS-13 gang members distribute $100 billion in drugs to our schools and
cities nationwide.
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- "Our groundwater will become badly contaminated,"
Lamm said.
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- Over 40 percent of lakes and rivers in America currently
remain unsafe for swimming or drinking. The Mississippi River spews toxic
water into a 10,000 mile dead zone<#_ftn1>[30] in the Gulf of
Mexico.
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- "The U.S. carries an international welfare load
to match its domestic one," Lamm said. "An effort to increase
exports to 'never-to-be-developed' countries has led to a dangerous overexploitation
of American farmland."
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- The U.S. gives over $6 billion annually to
countries like Israel and Egypt in outright money that goes into the pockets
of the rich. It pays horrendous welfare to millions in the USA-unable,
unwilling or uneducated enough to work.
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- As shown by Dr. Tanton's research in "Crossing
our Agricultural Rubicon", as a nation, we no longer enjoy unlimited
food production as our farmland diminishes with population onslaught.
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- It's
like gazing across a beautiful lake that appears pristine on the surface
until you dive under water to see rusting cans of nuclear waste, leaking
cans of pesticides, chemical piles, wrecked cars, dead fish on the bottom
and a host of other ugly realities.
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- Lamm in the 1980s saw America as a "nation in liquidation"
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- Lamm felt we might hold out hope with a brilliant
new president who leads the country back to a sustainable future. In
his book, fictional President Morgenstern ("Morning Star") managed
to balance the budget, paid off the debt and created means-testing for
welfare applicants. National health showed improvement by prevention methods;
pension systems overhauled; government regained borders; infrastructure
rebuilt; and economic aid limited to countries that helped themselves.
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- In light of what's happening today, I am curious
as to Governor Lamm's projections in 2011.
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- The late Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned, "Seen
from the outside, the massive upheaval in American society approaches a
limit beyond which it will become 'meta-stable' and must collapse."
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- Even that famous Russian writer who lived here
for a short time could not imagine the environmental aspect; nonetheless,
he witnessed the social and historical ramifications.
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- If you look at what our president and Congress
continue in 2011, I add 'national suicide' via apathy as our ultimate destination.
Most Americans resemble sheep following the one before them down a chute
into the killing zone. No one takes action or tries to escape until they
see the sledge hammer dropping toward their head. By then, it's too late.
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- Every sign points to environmental breakdown,
immigration pileup and degraded standard of living. Like Hurricane Katrina,
you can count on the consequences with continued American mass apathy as
well as incompetence and corruption of elected leaders.
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