- By writing about severe consequences heading, like a
Hurricane Katrina, toward not just New Orleans five years ago, but every
state in America--readers chastise me. They question past titles like,
'Consequences of Too Many People; 'Too Many People, Too Few Solutions;
and 'America's Coming Overpopulation Crisis'. They feel the columns' themes
did not apply to them or wouldn't happen to them. They are correct-it won't
happen to them-it will happen to their children.
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- If our nation keeps thinking like the people of New Orleans--that
it won't happen to them--think again. Look at millions living in the earthquake
arena of California. It is not a question of if, but when the 9.5 scale
quake hits. New Orleans was not a question of if, but when. Same goes for
those living in Florida's hurricane alley. If you travel west, you see
people building homes on the cliffs of California when contractors told
them that rains would cause slides. They built anyway and look what happened
the last two years during the rainy season. What about those building in
fire areas of California? Did you not see their homes burn in the past
two years?
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- What I seek to convey to the American public stems from
my bicycle travels on six continents and through the most densely populated
countries of the world. I've seen the misery, suffering, debasement of
human living conditions and I've witnessed that once human numbers exceed
carrying capacity, all life suffers. Examine China, India, Africa and Bangladesh
for starters. They grow worse by the day. They can't solve their numbers
once manifested.
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- Several readers ask if I follow Thomas Malthus' "Essay
on the Principle of Population," or, they don't agree with me based
on the size of the United States. Many who pursue a religious course say,
"God will provide." What they neglect to realize is, according
to the March 14, 2005, issue of Time Magazine, 18 million people starve
to death around the planet annually. Therefore, it is not an issue of Malthus
or God; the issue concernes a growing reality that humanity outstrips the
planet's ability to feed, water and clothe the growing 'human storm' on
this planet.
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- More sobering, humans add 80 million net gain annually
on our way from 6.8 billion to 9.8 (high estimate by Population Reference
Bureau and supporting estimates by www.balance.org andwww.npg.org) billion
around 2050.
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- Anyone can live in denial all they want, but like Hurricane
Katrina, reality will strike when the storm hits. In other words, those
that scoff at me can sit back just like five days before Katrina hit, and
drink coffee on the back porch. But when it hits and you didn't evacuate,
you become one of the victims. And, as Time and Newsweek graphically reported,
our children. We failed the most innocent of all by our lack of action.
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- In this two part column, I quote many brilliant people
who know this 'population Katrina storm' heads our way. At the end, I add
my own quote to the fast approaching crisis of overpopulation.
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- When I talk about the crisis of overpopulation in America,
plenty of already manifested realities sober any rational mind. The quality
of our lives deteriorates daily as we add three million people annually
to our shores. The standard of living drops like a brick with millions
of added people. But let me quote those who know more and are the leaders
from the past and present.
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- "We must prevent human tragedy rather than run around
trying to save ourselves after an event has already occurred. Unfortunately,
history clearly shows that we arrive at catastrophe by failing to meet
the situation, by failing to act when we should have acted. The opportunity
passes us by and the next disaster is always more difficult and compounded
than the last one." Eleanor Roosevelt
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- You may not like Eleanor, but her words ring true. What
if former President Bush had been a competent president and installed
a competent man as director of FEMA? Instead, he appointed an incompetent
man, Mike Brown, who was fired from a ten year job as president of an Arabian
horse association. How could he lead a major federal agency with his 'good
ole boy' connections? Bush's ineptness and his own incompetence expressed
itself in Brown who manifested incompetence before and during Katrina.
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- Fast forward to 2010, we must endure two more years of
Obama's lack of understanding of our predicament. Obama manifests the "Peter
Principle" (most persons in corporate America rise to their highest
level of incompetence; once there, they make everyone under them miserable,
and they can't grab the reins).
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- Eleanor stands right on the money and we will pay the
consequences for such observable incompetence as Obama muddles through
his last two years. When it comes to the immigration invasion of three
million people crashing onto our shores annually, Obama doesn't have a
clue as to the critical impact and danger to future generations due to
sheer numbers. He resembles a blind watchmaker.
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- So what do other brighter minds say about the worsening
crisis of overpopulation in America?
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- "Immigration of the kind and on the scale America
has had for the last three decades is in effect, a recipe for cultural
suicide and squandering of a rich national heritage." Dr. Lee Marland
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- Look at that quote and tell me you don't feel it in your
community with all the illegal aliens and non absorbing legal immigrants
who can't and won't speak English, but use and abuse our system for their
own purposes. Tell me you think our country can continue, with dozens of
other languages and Stone Age cultures that don't assimilate into what
is America as a First World country.
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- "The two-generation indirect immigration, i.e.,
including the births to foreign-born mothers, explained the incredible
98 percent of California's growth between 1990 and 2000." Dr. Leon
Bouvier
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- Anyone want to move to the beautiful Los Angeles area
anytime soon? I would need my head examined if I wanted to move into that
grinding traffic, three million illegal aliens and nine million legal immigrant
quagmire. Immigration provoked growth from 17 million in 1965 to over 38
million today. They suffer gridlock, air pollution, crime, disease, mountains
of trash, Mexico's slums and a non English speaking populace, which is
more anti-American than Castro.
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- As you read this column, are the lights turning on? Are
you connecting the dots? Do you see the growing calamity about to visit,
possibly not you, but definitely your children here in the once limitless
USA? Exploding gas prices present harbingers of our future. Air pollution
grows thicker with every added person. Farmland diminishes as asphalt
and concrete cover it. I spent the summer bicycling 4,000 miles across
the USA. Gas costs $3.00 a gallon.
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- In the second part of this series, we will pursue the
growing realities of ignoring the current population growth of America
at five million annually. When you take five million and multiply by 60
years, you add 300 million or a doubling of the US population from 295
million to 600 million. If you think the gridlock, air pollution, acid
rain, diminishing cropland, congestion, failing health systems, global
warming, species extinction is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet! In
other words, Population Katrina will hit all 50 states in 2035. But even
before that date, it will degrade all our lives with too many people, shrinking
freedoms, diminished resources, water wars, diseases, maddening traffic
and worsening air pollution.
- I'm going to add my quote to all these other people.
THE MORE EXTREME OUR NUMBERS, THE MORE EXTREME OUR CHILDREN'S CONSEQUENCES.
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- Unless, of course, you decide to get involved in your
children's future.
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
- from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA,
coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic
Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population
Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church
groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world
population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America
on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1
888 280 7715
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