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By Frosty Wooldridge
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6-3-18

To - Mr. Mark Tercek, President of The Nature Conservancy
From - Frosty Wooldridge, 924 Calgary Way, Golden, CO 80401

Six Continent World Bicycle Traveler, www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com
Author of 3 overpopulation books, the latest being: America On The Brink
- The Next Added 100 Million Americans 303 666-6186

Regarding - The Essay 'India Rising” by Matt Jenkins,
Published Summer 2018, Nature Conservancy Magazine

Dear Mr. Tercek,

Once again, I am distressed if not stupefied at your publishing such a powder-puff piece on India. You seem to think that it’s all going to turn out well with their adding another 350 million people by mid-century. Have you ever heard of the phrase, “Are you out of your cotton-pickin’ mind?”

Which India did you see? The one from a hotel near the Taj Mahal? Airport to hotel? That’s it? You could only write a piece like that by seeing nothing of the real India.

As a cyclist, I saw India’s rivers run in sewage. Its plastic containers clog every highway, city and river. Massive piles of plastic and trash everywhere. No sanitation anywhere. Its filth defies imagination. Its poverty screams off the charts. Its crowding of busses, trains and streets defies understanding. Its air pollution rains down on the land and poisons the soils. The stench, the illiteracy and the human misery index extends beyond comprehension!

Contrary to your puff piece with Mr. Jenkins, India’s future looks more like the Titanic’s. Its wildlife won’t survive. Its people won’t survive. Its environment won’t survive. Quality of life and standard of living? Might as well project India’s future as Dante’s Inferno!

I know you’re a highly educated, dedicated and heartfelt man. I am the same. I’ve just gotten a rougher taste of the realities at 12 mph on a bicycle around the world’s six continents. India doesn’t possess a snowball’s chance in hell of improving or surviving its population nightmare.

You MUST, at some point speak to or allow writers who inject the idea of population stabilization/decline via birth control as the ONLY and FINAL solution for humanity in the 21stcentury. Every other mitigation idea fails and fails totally. The longer you project Mark Twain’s “Lie of Silent Assertion”, the worse our chances of saving any species from extinction in the “Sixth Extension Session” that the Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson said, “I expect that one third of all creatures on Earth face extinction by 2050 at the current rate of human population expansion.”

At some point, that “session” includes humans. Worse, it means all your work to save land and habitat faces failure on multiple levels.

Allow writers with greater grasp of what we face to publish in your magazine. I can give you a dozen who write superb pieces on what we face.

Otherwise, your legacy grows in denial and delusion on a worldwide scale.

Highest and best,

Frosty Wooldridge
Golden, CO