- This year, the Sierra Club based in San Francisco, became
embroiled in a crisis of leadership. Former Colorado Governor Richard
Lamm, along with a host of progressive candidates, ran for board slots
that would change the focus of the Sierra Club. They wanted to bring America's
escalating immigration crisis into sharper focus.
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- John Muir, its founder, would turn over in his grave
if he were alive today to see the mismanagement of common sense in the
club's ostrich-like direction. Sierra Club purports to ensure environmental
integrity for wildlife, habitat and future generations. Instead, Carl
Pope, former president of the club along with his cadre of cronies, refused
to address the immigration-driven population growth that will double the
U.S. to 600 million people within this century--well on its way to a billion.
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- Even more disconcerting is the fact that 700,000 members
pay $35.00 in annual fees thinking the club's leaders work in the best
interests of all. Unfortunately, they are wasting their donations because
no matter how much money they pay to those managing the club, it's all
for nothing. Why? Like a man swimming up the Colorado River, he may be
making progress, but he's being swept down stream-never reaching his goal.
Pope and his friends prove Muir correct when he said, "There isn't
a sane man in San Francisco."
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- Why? Simple arithmetic shows we cannot grow by five
million annually (current U.S. growth rate with three million illegal aliens
entering in 2004, one million legal immigrants and one million U.S. citizen
births net gain per year) and hope to maintain a functioning society for
future generations.
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- In 1965, California enjoyed 17 million people. But as
immigration floodgates opened, the Golden Bear State burst out of its
Oshgosh overhauls like a fat man at an all-you-can-eat Ponderosa buffet
having exploded to 36 million people. California will add 20 million in
30 years at the current rate of immigration. Colorado will add five million
as will Arizona. The entire U.S. population will double to 600 million
around mid century. What's the problem here?
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- Plain answer: Water, or, the lack of it. It's called
exceeding 'carrying capacity.' It features another name.
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- Every farmer in California and the world understands
the "Tragedy of the Commons."
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- For example, a farmer can run six cows into a one-acre
paddock with a water tank. Those cows can eat, drink, romp and chew their
cud to their hearts content. More grass will grow, cow-pies will absorb
into the soil and all cows will enjoy quiet moments contemplating before
being led off to the meatpacking plant.
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- If the farmer runs 100 cows into that paddock, it soon
resembles a Montfort cattle feed lot. The cows and manure stink like holy
hell for miles around. Cows sleep on piles of dung. The grass dies,
which mean those cows will be fed artificially. It's known as the 'Tragedy
of the Commons." Along with it, a multitude of other problems arise
with disease, crowding, etc.
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- "The problems in the world today are so enormous
they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them."
Einstein
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- With the above quote, Lamm ran for the club's board of
directors to bring "new thinking" by stepping out of the box.
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- However, a smear campaign by Pope and the old guard worked!
Sierra members, like cows herded into a one-acre paddock, voted for continued
Third World thinking. What is that? As a traveler throughout much of
that struggling misery around the planet where billions suffer from overpopulation
via the "Tragedy of the Commons," I describe it as 'ignoring
problems until they grow into irreversible crises with no way to solve
them while victims live in misery.'
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- What country comes to mind? The best is Bangladesh with
144 million people in a country with the land mass the size of Oregon.
Add China, India and the list grows as the world adds 80 million people
net gain annually while the human race explodes toward 10 billion!
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- Where does that leave California? John Muir? Einstein?
Common sense? Rational leadership and thinking as well as proactive action?
Where does it leave you?
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- Sitting in gridlock, breathing poison air, forced into
sprawl thicker than hair on a dog, quality of life much like a Montfort
feed lot and neurotic Excedrin headaches not to mention your kids suffer
at school, diseases and hospitals collapsing-for starters!
- However, the "Tragedy of the Commons" leaves
out one aspect. YOU! That's right, you don't have be led into a population-nightmare
future of California or for that matter, all of these United States, like
a cow to its slaughter. Choose personal responsibility, action and result.
Join with others for the battle that will ensure the viability of American
society. John Muir would say, "Use your common sense and take action."
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- Frosty Wooldridge is a teacher and author who has bicycled
100,000 miles on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly.
His explosive new book is:
- "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES."
Copies may be obtained: 1 888 280 7715 www.frostywooldridge.com Wooldridge
is a Senior Writing Fellow for Californians for Population Stabilization.
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- Frosty Wooldridge is a teacher and author who has bicycled
100,000 miles
- on six continents to see overpopulation up close and
ugly. His explosive
- new book is: "IMMIGRATION,S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY
CONSEQUENCES."
- Copies may be obtained: 1 888 280 7715 www.frostywooldridge.com
- Wooldridge is a Senior Writing Fellow for Californians
for Population
- Stabilization.
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- http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_10594.shtml
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