- Millions of Americans scoff at the idea that overpopulation
causes any detrimental effects to our land, water and air. If they
knew more, they might speak out and lead the "Charge of Enlightenment."
They would push for change based on knowledge instead of emotions or past
models. They might thrust aside anachronistic paradigms that no longer
work in the 21st
- century-and apply new concepts for present conditions.
-
- Instead, they squeal derogatory names at those who speak
up. "Quit being a chicken little," one reader wrote.
Or, many who understand our 'human dilemma' bury their heads in denial.
-
- Meanwhile, the August 1991 issue of Life Magazine, titled,
"Shark Alert!" reported, "The age-old struggle between man
and shark has become a killing frenzy. We slaughter 100 million sharks
every year, driving them to extinction."
-
- Sharks prowled the seas for the last 400 million years.
But now, the predator has become the prey. Humans kill sharks at
such an alarming rate that many varieties face extinction. Shark
fins are bought by the Agger Trading Company in New York where they are
dried and resold. Hong Kong alone buys over seven million pounds
each year for shark-fin soup.
-
- Fast forward to the March 2006 issue of Mother Jones
News, titled, "Last Days of the Ocean." Researcher
Julia Whitty wrote, "One of the biggest culprits is long-lining, in
which a single boat sets plastic line across 60 miles of ocean, each bearing
gangion lines that dangle at different depths, baited with 10,000 hooks
designed to catch a variety of species. Each year, two billion long-line
hooks are set worldwide primarily for tuna and swordfish-though long-liners
inadvertently kill far more other species that take the bait, including
40,000 sea turtles, 300,000 sea birds and 100,000,000 sharks."
-
- Not only that, fishing trawler captains cut loose thousands
of miles of drift nets that get snagged on reefs. Those nets continue
killing uncounted numbers of marine life by the millions for however long
the plastic monofilament lasts: in a word-almost forever. Experts
say that drift nets represent 'clear cutting' under water where everything
is destroyed. It's been called "raping the oceans with no moral or
ethical responsibility."
-
- Whitty continues, "Fishing fleets in the Gulf of
Mexico have dropped the white tip shark population 99 percent since the
1950s, driving that species into virtual extinction. These sharks
are thrown dead or dying back into the ocean; these unwanted species make
up at least 25 percent of the global catch, as much as 88 billion pounds
of life eliminated, for no reason, annually."
-
- If you consider the figure of 100 million slaughtered
sharks in 1991, annually, up to 2006, that's 14 years to slaughter 1.4
billion sharks for their fins for human soup. If you add in 300,000
seabirds annually, that's 4.2 million seabirds killed in those 14 years.
That's over a half million sea turtles killed for nothing.
-
- Whatever life remains in the Gulf of Mexico suffers from
what is called a "dead zone" which is an area of ocean filled
with human chemicals so toxic that few fish species can withstand it or
reproduce. A deadly conveyor belt known as the Mississippi River
delivers nitrogen-laced, chemically active fertilizers, herbicides and
pesticides by the millions of gallons hourly, twenty four hours a day.
Latest research shows a 3,000 square mile dead zone beginning at the mouth
of Old Man River.
-
- "Close to 50 hypoxic dead zones fester on the coasts
of the continental United States," Whitty reported. "The
situation is far worse in Europe, with 14 persistent dead zones that never
go away, and almost 40 others occurring annually, the biggest and worst
being the 27,000 square mile dead zone in the Baltic Sea, which equals
the landmass of North Carolina."
-
- The most horrible news stems from human chemicals poisoning
coral reefs. Because of global warming and chemicals injected into
our oceans, the exhaustive study in 2004, "Status of Coral Reefs of
the World" showed 20 percent of the world's reefs so badly damaged
they are unlikely to recover and another 50 percent teeter on the edge
of extinction15 percent of the world's sea grass beds have disappeared
in the past 10 years, depriving marine species of critical habitat."
-
- "Likewise, kelp beds are dying at alarming rates;
75 percent are gone from Southern California alone-victims of the demise
of sea otters that regulate populations of kelp-eating sea urchins."
-
- Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
estimated that oceans absorbed 118 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide
since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Today we add 25 tons
daily. This exhaust stems from 84 million barrels of oil burned worldwide
each day. That doesn't take include gas, wood and coal burned all
over the planet.
-
- "This mitigation of carbon dioxide changes oceanic
PH levels," Whitty said. "Coral reefs plagued by so many stressors
will almost certainly vanish."
-
- A quick trip west of San Francisco during our nuclear
expansion in 1945 shows the U.S. government dumped 400 barrels of radio-active
waste 20 miles off shore. A recent PBS report showed all 400 barrels
ruptured with their contents dissolved into the Pacific Ocean. Can
you imagine what other nuclear countries have done with their radio-active
waste? Is it any wonder tuna, salmon and other marine life test chemically
positive and our children should not eat fish because their small bodies
can't tolerate the doses inside marine tissue?
-
- In Alaska, polar bears struggle and drown with vanishing
ice pack because they must swim too far to gain the ice. Worse, toxic
chemicals plague the ice bears. Researcher Marla Cone wrote, "Polar
bear cubs already harbor more pollutants in their bodies than most other
creatures on the planet. Mother polar bears store a lifetime of chemicals
in their fat and bequeath them, via their milk, to their young. Several
hundred of the industrialized world's most toxic chemicals like PCBs and
organochlorine pesticides such as DDT have transformed the Arctic into
a chemical repository. The chemicals magnify in animals each step
up the food chain leaving polar bears, killer whales and other predators
highly contaminated."
-
- Today, in the Gulf of Mexico, leatherback turtles have
declined 97 percent in the past two decades. They feed on jellyfish,
but today, shrimpers can't draw their nets into the boats because millions
of 25 pound jellyfish make it impossible to retrieve nets.
-
- On top of this 'tip of the iceberg' report, you may appreciate
that global warming causes horrendous storm activity in our warming oceans,
so much so, hurricane scientists call for a new category greater than Katrina's
category 5. They expect category 6!
-
- More tidbits to consider:
-
- --Cruise ships produce 30,000 gallons of sewage and 19
tons of garbage daily which is dumped into the oceans in defiance of international
laws.
- --U.S. Congressman Richard Pombo (R-CA) has accepted
over $23,000.00 in foreign junkets to help him weaken federal laws protecting
fisheries and marine life.
- --Gorton's Seafood's has killed 2,700 whales against
international laws in the guise of "scientific research."
- --Toxic PCBs are regulated by the FDA, but the FDA allows
such high levels of cancer-causing PCBs in farmed salmon that, if they
were present in wild salmon, the EPA would restrict consumption to one
meal per month.
- --Chemically caused cancers kill millions worldwide annually.
-
- When does avoiding a look at one's paradigm cause damage?
Is there a time when one's entrenched paradigm needs digging out lest a
person or company or society bequeaths on future generations a problem
that is both irreversible and unsolvable? Is there a moral and/or
ethical question as to this kind of killing spree by a cognitive species
upon defenseless non-cognitive fellow creatures?
-
- Am I a chicken little? I am a realist. I
am a messenger. I've seen what's coming in my world travels from
the Arctic to Antarctica.
-
- What you must ask yourself is, "Do I want to leave
this degraded world for my children, or do I want to change it for the
better?"
-
- Can Americans change course to a more viable and sustainable
long term future? If we add another 100 million people to this country,
the answers is: No! As I noted in the first column of this series,
you can't see a tsunami until it hits. As you read part IV of this
series, it dawns on you that you couldn't see any of what you've just read,
but it's happening at an accelerating rate of speed--all caused by population
overload.
-
- How far can we afford to expand our human numbers?
At what point do we crash head-on into the brick wall labeled "human
fallout" with what we're doing to ourselves and all other living creatures
on our planet home? It's a decision we better make fast. In
light of reading this report, name one advantage of adding 100 million
more Americans by 2040.
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- "Surviving like rats is not something we should
bequeath to our children," Jacque Cousteau world renowned oceanographer
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- What you can do to change America for the better:
-
- These are accountable public servants. How do I
know? I have met them personally and I know they serve our country.
-
- To stop illegal aliens in your community, you may follow
the course of action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA. He
offers a bomb proof ordinance that takes business licenses away from those
who hire illegals. He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals.
Without work and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your community.
Check out his website for instructions: www.SmallTownDefenders.com/public/node/6
-
- Visit D.A. King at the www.thedustininmansociety.org
to see how Georgia created the best laws to stop illegals at the state
level.
-
- Please check out William Gheen at www.alipac.us.
He's a mover and shaker. He will direct you to specific actions that make
you more powerful and effective.
-
- To stop this invasion locally and nationally: join www.numbersusa.com
for free and you can join www.fairus.org and www.thesocialcontract.com
-
- Wooldridge presents a 45 minute program to colleges,
high schools, civic clubs, church groups and political clubs across America
titled: "COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT
IT". Go to his website for further information on booking the
program. www.frostywooldridge.com
-
- To make visual impact: Additionally, we have 300
remaining Paul Revere Ride T-shirts left that feature: "Stop
Illegal Immigration" on the front and the very cool "21st
- Century Paul Revere Ride" logo on the back with
web sites. You are invited to support the PRR. Send donations
to: 21st
- Century Paul Revere Ride at POB 207, Louisville, CO
80027.
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- www.21stCenturyPaulRevereRide.us ; www.numbersusa.com
www.carryingcapacity.org ; www.balance.org ; www.thesocialcontract.com
- www.alipac.us at 1 866 329 3999; www.theamericanresistance.com
; www.ccir.net ; www.theByteShow.com ; www.projectusa.org ; www.borderguardians.org
; www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; www.mothersagainstillegalaliens.org
; www.unitedpatriotsofamerica.com ; www.unitedstates.fm ; www.worldfreedomtour.info
; My book: "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES"
Call: 1 888 280 7715. http://www.TiANews.com www.victimsofillegalaliens.org
; www.pacinlaw.org
- http://USABorderAlert.com/ ; http://SanDiegoBorderAlert.com/
; www.laurierothshow.com
-
- Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world,
cultures and families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000
miles, on six continents and six times across the United States in the
past 30 years. He presents a program to colleges, conferences, high schools
and civic clubs around the country: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS
IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT". His published books include:
"HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; "STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE" ; "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES"
; "MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND-A TEEN NOVEL"
; "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION"
; "AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA". His next book: "TILTING
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP". He lives in Denver,
Colorado. frostyw@juno.com www.frostywooldridge.com
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