America´s Overpopulation Crisis is Not about Race
Frosty Wooldridge
June 16, 2009
Every time I write a column on what causes overpopulation in America, a plethora of emotional readers make disparaging comments about my life, what kind of a person I am, and finally, they attack me—not for the message—but for being the messenger. Additionally, many more thank me for my candor and courage to speak up!
First of all, nothing I write about has anything to do with race, creed or color. Mother Nature doesn´t care if you´re fat, ugly, smart, pretty, rich, poor, black, white, red, or yellow. Around the planet, Mother Nature already kills annually 18 million human beings via starvation as they exceed the carrying capacity of the land where they live. You got that?! (Source: World Health Organization)
At least another billion plus humans never enjoy clean water, toilet, shower, soap or lavatory, which you all take for granted. Arun Gandhi, great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, whom I met two years ago said, "In my country of India, over four million people are born in the streets, live in the streets and die in the streets without ever having used a toilet, taken a shower or slept in a bed." In Rio de Janeiro, they call them street rats because they are born in the streets as their parents dump them--and those kids live like rats. How do I know? I witnessed it firsthand in India and South America. So, if you want to sling names, shout out to Mother Nature at what a witch, racist or horrible woman she is!
Citizens of and the United States, this month, June 2009, our civilization cannot be sustained at the current living and consumption standards. It´s called "overshoot." We import 12 million out of the 20 million barrels of oil we burn daily. Experts in oil report the "Hubbert Curve" states that "Peak Oil" will hit around the last part of 2010. At that point, no matter how much we drill, we cannot and will not keep pulling 85 million barrels out of the Earth to fuel our machines that grow our food. Additionally, no amount of alternative energy will save us or maintain our current modern civilizations.
To show how much energy oil provides the U.S. annually, Michael Brownlee of www.transitionbouldercounty.com provided an astounding graph of one cubic mile of oil. That´s how much oil the world burns each year! That equals the same amount of energy provided by 52 nuclear power plants built every year for 50 years or 104 operating coal-fired electrical plants built every year for 50 years or 32,000 wind turbines built every year for 50 years—and in continuous operation—or 91,250,000 solar panels built every year for 50 years.
In other words, oil produces dramatically incredible amounts of energy that we cannot and will not be able to duplicate in the coming years.
Did you get that?
Thank you for considering one of the foremost experts on our dilemma:
"As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we must do in this century, will the "civil" part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid." Walter Youngquist
Now, what names will you call him?
Additionally, we do not have enough water to sustain another 100 million people in this country? What kind of a name will you call me for that fact? What would you call the Salt Lake Tribune for reporting the facts?
The West is hurtling toward a water crisis; www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_11417265
"Overpopulation will be the major factor in the destruction of Utah, the second driest state with the fastest growth rate with the highest birthrate." Bernard DeVoto said, "The future of the West hinges on whether it can defend itself against itself."
How about a name calling fest for the brilliant Dr. E.O. Wilson at Harvard?
"The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic."
How about a few names slung at these top 102 Nobel Prize laureates:
"Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth." World scientists´ warning to humanity, signed by 1600 senior scientists from 70 countries including 102 Nobel Prize laureates, November 18, 1992
In other words, instead of name calling, what solutions do you bring to the table?
My solutions:
1. Promote and offer reproductive choices and Family Planning worldwide to all people in all countries.
2. Help third world countries with tractors, sanitation, food production and water purification.
3. Reduce immigration to the USA to 100,000 a year because that´s how many egress the country annually. Net gain of zero! That would move America toward a sustainable future for all citizens.
4. That would encourage other countries to become responsible for their own populations and take responsibility for their futures.
5. Institute a "US Sustainable Population Policy" to bring about a discussion and debate about population in America. Similar policy for each state.
6. Institute a "US Water Usage Policy" to secure ample water for humans, crops and animals into the 21st century.
7. Institute a "US Environmental Impact Policy" to allow all plants and animals a share of their existence and sustainability alongside humans.
8. Institute an "International Sustainable Population Policy" to promote a stable population of humans for the entire planet that will allow humanity to survive into the 21st century.
9. All-out scientific pursuit for a non-polluting alternative energy to drive the engines of humanity safely into the 21st century.
10. What are your ideas for a viable future for this civilization?
Let´s get down to business to bring about a sustainable future for our kids, and all plants and animals here in the early years of the 21st century while we still have a viable planet.
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
To take action: First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!
First of all, nothing I write about has anything to do with race, creed or color. Mother Nature doesn´t care if you´re fat, ugly, smart, pretty, rich, poor, black, white, red, or yellow. Around the planet, Mother Nature already kills annually 18 million human beings via starvation as they exceed the carrying capacity of the land where they live. You got that?! (Source: World Health Organization)
At least another billion plus humans never enjoy clean water, toilet, shower, soap or lavatory, which you all take for granted. Arun Gandhi, great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, whom I met two years ago said, "In my country of India, over four million people are born in the streets, live in the streets and die in the streets without ever having used a toilet, taken a shower or slept in a bed." In Rio de Janeiro, they call them street rats because they are born in the streets as their parents dump them--and those kids live like rats. How do I know? I witnessed it firsthand in India and South America. So, if you want to sling names, shout out to Mother Nature at what a witch, racist or horrible woman she is!
Citizens of and the United States, this month, June 2009, our civilization cannot be sustained at the current living and consumption standards. It´s called "overshoot." We import 12 million out of the 20 million barrels of oil we burn daily. Experts in oil report the "Hubbert Curve" states that "Peak Oil" will hit around the last part of 2010. At that point, no matter how much we drill, we cannot and will not keep pulling 85 million barrels out of the Earth to fuel our machines that grow our food. Additionally, no amount of alternative energy will save us or maintain our current modern civilizations.
To show how much energy oil provides the U.S. annually, Michael Brownlee of www.transitionbouldercounty.com provided an astounding graph of one cubic mile of oil. That´s how much oil the world burns each year! That equals the same amount of energy provided by 52 nuclear power plants built every year for 50 years or 104 operating coal-fired electrical plants built every year for 50 years or 32,000 wind turbines built every year for 50 years—and in continuous operation—or 91,250,000 solar panels built every year for 50 years.
In other words, oil produces dramatically incredible amounts of energy that we cannot and will not be able to duplicate in the coming years.
Did you get that?
Thank you for considering one of the foremost experts on our dilemma:
"As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we must do in this century, will the "civil" part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid." Walter Youngquist
Now, what names will you call him?
Additionally, we do not have enough water to sustain another 100 million people in this country? What kind of a name will you call me for that fact? What would you call the Salt Lake Tribune for reporting the facts?
The West is hurtling toward a water crisis; www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_11417265
"Overpopulation will be the major factor in the destruction of Utah, the second driest state with the fastest growth rate with the highest birthrate." Bernard DeVoto said, "The future of the West hinges on whether it can defend itself against itself."
How about a name calling fest for the brilliant Dr. E.O. Wilson at Harvard?
"The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic."
How about a few names slung at these top 102 Nobel Prize laureates:
"Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth." World scientists´ warning to humanity, signed by 1600 senior scientists from 70 countries including 102 Nobel Prize laureates, November 18, 1992
In other words, instead of name calling, what solutions do you bring to the table?
My solutions:
1. Promote and offer reproductive choices and Family Planning worldwide to all people in all countries.
2. Help third world countries with tractors, sanitation, food production and water purification.
3. Reduce immigration to the USA to 100,000 a year because that´s how many egress the country annually. Net gain of zero! That would move America toward a sustainable future for all citizens.
4. That would encourage other countries to become responsible for their own populations and take responsibility for their futures.
5. Institute a "US Sustainable Population Policy" to bring about a discussion and debate about population in America. Similar policy for each state.
6. Institute a "US Water Usage Policy" to secure ample water for humans, crops and animals into the 21st century.
7. Institute a "US Environmental Impact Policy" to allow all plants and animals a share of their existence and sustainability alongside humans.
8. Institute an "International Sustainable Population Policy" to promote a stable population of humans for the entire planet that will allow humanity to survive into the 21st century.
9. All-out scientific pursuit for a non-polluting alternative energy to drive the engines of humanity safely into the 21st century.
10. What are your ideas for a viable future for this civilization?
Let´s get down to business to bring about a sustainable future for our kids, and all plants and animals here in the early years of the 21st century while we still have a viable planet.
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
To take action: First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!