- The human herd adds 80 million of its members net gain
every year. It adds 1 billion every 13 years. It will reach 7 billion
in October of this year. It will add another 3 billion by 2050--a scant
39 years from now. This planet cannot sustain that many humans as to our
rapacious devouring of water, energy and resources. Therefore, continued
immigration into stable countries cannot be sustained. It's time for a
worldwide discussion on human population and movement toward rapid human
population decline. Here is why:
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- "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
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- "Unlimited population growth cannot be sustained;
you cannot sustain growth in the rates of consumption of resources. No
species can overrun the carrying capacity of a finite land mass. This Law
cannot be repealed and is not negotiable." Dr. Albert Bartlett, www.albartlett.org
, University of Colorado, USA.
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- "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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- "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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- "Growth for the sake of yet more growth is a bankrupt
and eventually lethal idea. CASSE is the David fighting the Goliath of
endless expansion, and we know how that one turned out." ~ David Orr
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- The green revolution was instigated as a result of the
efforts of Norman Borlaug, who, while accepting the Nobel peace prize in
1970, said: "The green revolution has won a temporary success in man's
war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space.
If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance
during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction
must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the green revolution will
be ephemeral only."
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- "The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble
of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime....so
I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves
move toward depletion, we will be left with an enormous population...that
the ecology of the earth will not support. The journey back toward non-oil
population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way
that population hyper growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age.
It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened
and we are stuck with it." James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency
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- "We must alert and organize the world's people to
pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes
of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful
consumption of irreplaceable resources. Over-consumption and overpopulation
underlie every environmental problem we face today." Jacques-Yves
Cousteau, Oceanographer
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- "Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the
large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because
more and more of the earth's carrying capacity is systematically being
converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out,
starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that
most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will
not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion
begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this
planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes." Daniel
Quinn - Nature - Life - People - World - Technology - Peace - Environmental
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- "We've poured our poisons into the world as though
it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to
imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but
nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will
have to solve, or their children."
- Daniel Quinn - Nature - World - Insanity - Greed - Problems
- Environmental - Responsibility
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- "As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we
have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this
century, will the "civil" part of civilization survive? As we
both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the
amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected
by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a
Faustian bargain-selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the
moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid." Walter Youngquist,
energy
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- "The U.S. will set a record in the rate of rise-and
fall of an empire. Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and
growing population against a declining resource base, the US will be defeated
from within. Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third
largest in the world and unable to support its population except by taking
resources from other countries." Arnold Toynbee, historian
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emissions indicates we will continue to squeeze the trigger on the gun
we have put to our own head." Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change:
Climate, Weather and the Destruction of Civilization
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- "The ship is already starting to spin out of control.
We may soon lose all chance of grabbing the wheel. Humanity faces a genuinely
new situation. It is not an environmental crisis in the accepted sense.
It is a crisis for the entire life-support system for our civilization
and our species." Fred Pearce, The Last Generation: How Nature Will
take Her Revenge for Climate Change
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manage a transition to sustainability on a global or national scale, even
if the political will to attempt it existed, which it clearly does not.
Our civilization is in the early stages of the same curve of decline and
fall as so many others have followed before it. What likely lies in wait
for us is a long, uneven decline into a new Dark Age from which, centuries
from now, the civilizations of the future will gradually emerge."
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- "We are strong and adaptable animals and can certainly
make a new life on the hotter Earth, but there will only be a fraction
of inhabitable land left. Soon we face the appalling question of who m
can we let aboard the lifeboats? And who must we reject? There will be
great clamor from climate refugees seeking a safe haven in those few parts
where the climate is tolerable and food available. We will need a new set
of rules for limiting the population in climate oases." James Lovelock,
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A final Warning
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- "Imagine we live on a planet. Not our cozy, taken
for granted planet, but a planet, a real one, with melting poles and dying
forests and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms,
scorched by heat. And inhospitable place. It needs a new name, Eaarth."
Bill McKibben, Eaarth: Making a life on a Tough new Planet
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- "If present growth trends in population, industrialization,
pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the
limits to growth will be reached sometime in the next 100 years."
The Club of Rome 1972
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- "The power of population is so superior to the power
of earth to produce subsistence to humanity that premature death must in
some shape or other visit the human race." Thomas Malthus 1798
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- "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
of population, locally, nationally, or globally." Dr. Albert Bartlett
www.albartlett.org
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- "All causes are lost causes without limiting human
population," Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
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- In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video,
"Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls", Roy Beck, director of
www.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 Britain
www.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 at www<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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- 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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