- Don Collins and I attended four major immigration and
population conferences this past weekend in Washington, DC. I asked Don
to present his ideas on our current immigration dilemma that morphs into
our overpopulation dilemma.
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- In a brilliant analysis, "Population Apocalypse
Delayed-But Not Cancelled" by Don Collins at www.Vdare.com ,
he presents the harshest realities of our times. Ironically, most U.S.
citizens do not understand their plight or that of their children because
the U.S. Main Stream Media refuses to address it.
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- "It was a heavy immigration weekend here in Washington,
DC," said Collins. "The Federation for American Immigration Reform
National Advisory Board held its annual meeting in Washington DC at the
Washington Court Hotel.
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- "Subsequently, I attended three more conferences,
two with Paul Ehrlich Stanford biologist, ecologist and demographer , and
author of the Population Bomb in 1968 and available at <http://www.amazon.com>www.amazon.com.
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- "At the meeting, I talked to Ira Mehlman, the organization's
media director, about the growth of human numbers to their present
historic levels-a phenomenon which has totally failed to engage the attention
of world leaders. I again mentioned to Ira my deep concern about the trend
toward what many experts regard as an unsustainable world.
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- "Ira challenged me. He said I could not prove my
point to most audiences, except to the converted groups with whom I regularly
consort. He pointed out that <http://homepage.newschool.edu/het/profiles/malthus.htm>Thomas
Malthus' predictions proved wrong as did those of Paul Ehrlich. [To
the contrary of Mehlman's statement, Ehrlich predicted 180 million human
deaths via starvation. From 1965 to 2010, over 300 million humans have
starved to death or died of related problems. The Green Revolution only
kicked the can down the road to even greater human calamity. FW]
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- "Of course, Ehrlich, stoutly and correctly in my
view, maintains that his predictions in The Population Bomb-mass starvation
in the 1970s and beyond-were wrong only as to their timing. Stupendous
corroborating research has come out in recent years, including an important
August 2010 paper by Professor and MD, David Pimentel, an entomologist,
and his Cornell colleagues. This comprehensive assessment of planetary
limits notes that the likely sustainable limit of our world might be two
billion people-if we can use renewable energy and curb natural resource
use. Others guess lower, even one as low as 100 million worldwide!
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- "At the sessions including Ehrlich, a number of
other experts well-known for their credentials in the ecology, environment
and population fields joined him in presenting data showing that our planet
is in a state of "overshoot"-the present number of humans, utilizing
resources both renewable and non-renewable, will not be able to sustain
their present lives, regardless of redistribution. The only way humans
will survive is through substantial reduction of our numbers. See my "US
Immigration Reform is Vital-But World Population Growth Coming Like a Tsunami"
and my "Heading for a world Apocalypse" in the summer, 2010 issue
of the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
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- "But Ira opined in effect that, if the sky is going
to fall, the time is not know-and no one can know when it will be. Until
then, he said, I and my population reduction colleagues, including Ehrlich,
will be dismissed as Chicken Littles.
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- "Ira argued: "You can never win the sustainability
argument." He says while he may well agree with the science, not
one leader of a major country is taking the political action necessary
to curb population and immigration.
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- "Ira says, very plausibly: "Why not argue 'desirability'-that
having more people does not improve things and why do we need more? People
can see the environmental degradation, the crowding, even the third world
starvation in grisly TV stories!
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- "But the downside of Ira's gentle approach-saying
less growth is simply desirable rather than essential-is that it will surely
not be heeded, and more than apocalyptic warnings based on the scientific
research and graphic horror stories discussed in the other meetings I just
attended.
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- "I applaud Ira's optimism that a "desirability
package" might prove persuasive to the main stream media, but Establishment
environmental groups such as the Sierra Club, etc., and to the presently
unconcerned world leaders.
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- "But you should be aware that this blindness did
not prevail just 40 years ago in the USA.
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- "Back in 1971, in his book Breeding Ourselves
to Death, Lawrence Lader, a veteran population writer, vividly reported
the high level of support for family planning among top U.S. leaders like
Ike, Nixon and Johnson.
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- "Negative Population Growth, <http://www.npg.org>www.npg.org,
published a paperback 30th Anniversary Edition, containing the original
introduction by Paul Ehrlich and his new introduction written November
2001. Ehrlich said then: "The sad thing is that population limitation,
to say nothing of consumption, has fallen off the government and public
radar scopes in the US."
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- "The striking thing is that our US leadership so
well understood the urgency of family planning in the 1960s up to the issuance
of the Rockefeller Commission Report in 1972. Then the enactment of the
Helms Amendment in 1973, forbidding foreign aid funds for family planning,
began a long period of drift to indifference.
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- "It is all too clear that the Roman Catholic hierarchy,
both in the USA and the Vatican, played a key role in ending this sharp
focus on family planning. The 40 years of indifference, initiated by the
Catholic hierarchy but tacitly accepted by many for fear of attack, will
be remembered as having an impact on the world far greater than the behavior
of the Church's clergy with young men. In my opinion, it was an immoral
attack on women and their families. At one of the meetings I attended last
week, Dr. Stephen D. Mumford documented to a rapt audience with quotes
from Catholic sources that the Church cannot retreat on contraception,
although its teachings are obviously ignored by Catholic laity, because
it would undermine the dogma of the Papal Infallibility. Read "Why
the church can't change" by Dr. Stephen D. Mumford."
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- In the end, let me ask you this urgent question:
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- · Do
you believe the human race can sustain its present population levels-as
well as the next two or more billions that seem destined to arrive in this
century?
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- "Smart people, such as Ehrlich and Garrett Hardin,
and countless thinking scientists, know that the present level of population
in the US is already unsustainable," said Collins.
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- Email Don Collins at: <mailto:DColl28416@aol.com>DColl28416@aol.com
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