Each Sunday, in order to publish the New York Times, 62,860 trees must die-sacrificed to make pulp into newsprint-paper.

 

In 52 weeks, that equals 3,268,720 trees- killed just so New Yorkers can read their news- and discard it after less than 15 minutes reading, on average per reader.

 

To make one ton of newsprint, 17 trees must die. In 2005, U.S. consumers racked up 10.6 million tons.

 

Do the math!

 

Wasteful production of print-newspapers

 

Not only do the trees die- the chemicals, transport and processing of paper creates horrific pollution. As reported in the May issue of Vanity Fair,

 

"The paper industry is the world's third-greatest industrial polluter, behind manufacturers of chemicals and steel."

 

Paper production proves a messy, irresponsible toxic process.

 

Paper mills exhaust uncountable tons of lethal chemicals including mercury, lead and dioxins. Dioxins are carcinogens that can combine with other toxins to make them mutagenic- meaning they alter your DNA.

 

"Not only dioxins but 100,000 other synthetic compounds have made their way into eco-systems far and near, infecting food chains and accumulating in their top carnivores- eagles, polar bears and humans."

 

From 2005 to 2006, global consumption of paper increased from 300 million tons to 366 million tons- a 22 percent increase. However, out of 62 million newspapers printed daily, 44 million are thrown away within one day- and precious few reach recycling bins.

 

This week, as you read this report, 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills, or burned.

 

Yeah but, recycling makes a big difference, right?

 

Recycling in America proves a joke at all levels- including plastic, glass and aluminum containers and paper.  Americans recycle only four percent of plastics. Apathetically pathetic!

 

As you tear off three feet of toilet paper once or twice a day, please appreciate the 500,000 acres of boreal forest in Alberta and Ontario-- clear cut to support your habit. Those forests support native caribou, bears, moose, wolves and billions of songbirds.

 

As Allen Hershkowitz, an expert on paper consumption said, "We're wiping our asses with endangered habitat."

 

Excrement of oil

 

Do you eat food? Of course you do! Do you know what it costs to grow human-food crops, and the impact upon our environment?

 

Today, because of depleted agricultural land- corn, cotton and other plants demand 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Farmers apply pesticides, herbicides- all based on oil.

 

Those chemicals impregnate the soil- causing death for nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Those chemicals drain into ground water, rivers and finally the oceans. Dead zones create horrific consequences for all living creatures.

 

No wonder honey bees die by the billions.

 

What about your personal transport motor-vehicle

 

Each day you jump into your car, you're a part of 241,193,974 registered motor-vehicle owners-users in America. They burn 20,000 barrels of oil every 24 hours. They create 30 percent of the world's greenhouse gases.

 

How about commercial aircraft; passenger & freight

 

Airplanes inject 600 million tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere. The list of wasteful processes and products grows long.

 

Americans use and waste 380 billion plastic bags annually.  Yes, that number stands out in the Vanity Fair article!  Used an average of 25 minutes, they're not biodegradable.   They sink into lakes, streams and oceans to strangle marine life that eat them- or "wear" them, snagged on their bodies. The remainder hit landfills where they never break down.

 

If these figures don't sicken you, they sicken me because I've seen unbelievable waste around the world in my bicycle travels.

 

Incredible amounts of waste

 

A whopping 70 percent of our consumer recyclables never see a recycle bin.

 

Vanity Fair tells us, "In 2003, Americans went through 73 billion plastic or polystyrene cups and plates and 64 billion papers ones, generating 1.7 billion tons of waste. Styrene molecules migrate into your food from containers, and, once in your system, become estrogen mimics- enabling molecular bonds in your body. These have bizarre effects on reproductive anatomy, fertility and increase your chances of breast or testicular cancer."

 

You don't suppose the young couples who want to raise their own baby connect the chemical process to their infertility, do you?

 

Food consumption

 

Americans consume 6.7 billion hamburgers a year. A whopping 80 percent of U.S raised grains feed livestock. One beef cow eats 2,700 pounds of grain for a result of 1,000 pounds of beef. That doesn't include the thousands of gallons of water consumed per pound of beef.

 

Marine-life consumed or destroyed by humans

 

On our ocean fishing beds, factory trawlers 'vacuum' up marine life with 20 mile long drift nets. This process is anything but cautious and discerning. Millions of "inadvertent" innocents die. If you recall, 100 million sharks suffer death at the hands of humans annually.

 

Once snagged, captains cut the nets away- which commence killing dolphins, turtles, sharks and other sea life- with impacts lasting for decades. Scientists predict a complete failure of marine fisheries by mid century.

 

Potable drinking water; quantities insufficient

 

One person out of every three on the planet today lacks reliable access to freshwater. Please, take a deep breath and think about that statement! That's two billion people who can't find a clean drink of water today as you read this report.

 

Rampant, unchecked, unplanned, irresponsible population growth

 

Can you imagine adding 100 million people to the USA in 33 years?

 

Every negative aspect of this environmental and social nightmare increases by the needs of 100 million more people.

 

What are we thinking? 

 

What are we doing? 

 

Where are we headed?

 

Do we behave as lemmings?

 

Our U.S. civilization heads like a brakeless train- over a cliff.

What you can do for a better future for your country:

A republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do everything for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North Korea and other unsavory examples.

To stop Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid from giving an amnesty, take action.

CALL Nancy Pelosi: Washington, DC - (202) 225-4965

San Francisco, CA - (415) 556-4862 ; Email Nancy Pelosi

sf.nancy@mail.house.gov ; Email form for Nancy Pelosi; http://www.house.gov/pelosi/contact/contact.html

Senator Harry Reid: 202 224 3121 in Washington DC

775 686 5750 in Reno, NV;

George Bush

1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20500

comments@whitehouse.gov

Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard for live listener: 202 456 1414

Fax: 202-456-2461

We must 'sour the milk.' Bring out your points in the call:

1. America cannot support another 100 million people added to our country in 34 years, i.e., water crisis, resource depletion, air pollution, gridlock, loss of quality of life, etc.

2. America cannot support lawbreakers being given citizenship.

3. America must maintain our English language.

4. America wants only legal immigrants who play by the rules and speak English.

5. America's working poor deserve a chance at jobs taken by illegals.

6. America already has too many people and I support a 10 year moratorium on all immigration.

7. Americans must maintain our schools for our children.

8. We can no longer tolerate 350,000 birthright citizens (anchor babies) annually that subtract from our own citizens.

9. Attrition through enforcement by stopping their ability to wire money home, obtain rental housing and jobs.

10. An amnesty failed in 1986, and it will only be worse today. We're being displaced out of our jobs and out of our own country. Call with relentless and never-give-up passion.

To reduce 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

Check out www.populationmedia.org for an exciting method for creating overpopulation awareness in Third World countries. Their prime directive works with the media in order to educate and activate leaders and women worldwide.

Whether we like it or not, global warming is upon us. We can take action to correct it. Please join www.stopglobalwarming.org for up to the minute information and action items.

Awareness Campaign web site, www.mcs-global.org, which is purely to help save and protect human health and environmental health globally. Diana Buckland is founder and global coordinator at diana@mcs-global.org or dbucklan@bigpond.net.au. Diana makes impact all over the world by alerting everyone about chemical sensitivities caused by poisons sprayed, injected and applied to our crops and elsewhere.

From Part 5 of this series, "Destroying our oceans", if you would like to become involved please refer to <http://www.savetheoceans.org/>www.savetheoceans.org for a first rate lesson on how to take action in order to cleanse our oceans, restock our fish population, move toward recycling and cleanup of our world's most important living resource. Watch shows on PBS that expose where we threw two million tires into the waters off the East Coast and all the damage those tires are doing to marine life. You'll find out what you can do to have them raised from the deep. Additionally, check out www.greenpeace.org for actions at the national and international levels.

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 ; for motorcyclists:

www.americanfreedomriders.com and www.immigrationbuzz.com ;

www.mcs-global.org ; On April 1, 2007, the Paul Revere Riders will again ride to stop the illegal invasion and accompany Arizona long haul truckers and motorcyclists in a freedom border ride to block illegal aliens from crossing our borders. We invite all veterans, truckers and bikers to join us. Contact Rusty Childress at www.immigrationbuzz.com and www.americanfreedomriders.com for further information. Please write with your ideas on what to name the ride.

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  

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