Legal and Illegal Immigration: Creating Ever Greater Unsustainable Population Growth
Frosty Wooldridge
March 26, 2008
Re: "US births highest since booming 1961: growing Hispanic population contributes to rise" Denver Post 1/16/08
The Denver Post reported 4.3 million newborns in 2006, "...mostly due to a growing number of Hispanics,white and ethnic groups were having more babies, too."
What's wrong with this picture? Why would economists respond with, "...the increase in births is good news."
Einstein said, "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity."
What didn't they tell us? What's causing our population growth to explode beyond carrying capacity? Easy answer: we're immigrating over 2.1 and as high as 2.5 million more people into this country every year-both legal and illegal.
Why do you think we suffer over two million immigrants annually? The simple fact stems from their overpopulated countries cannot provide jobs, food, housing and water. In other words, the poor of those countries become the new poor of our country. Which, in turn, creates our own population dilemma that will create the same overloaded population crisis here in Colorado and the rest of the U.S.
What's good about magnifying more human population into the USA with cities suffering gridlocked traffic, overcrowded schools, mega-brown clouds and water shortages?
Here in Colorado, we face accelerating population problems reported by the Denver Post weekly. Last week, the DP announced that Colorado grew by 100,000 in 2007. The predictions state that we'll grow by three million people in three decades.
Name one good reason for adding three million to Colorado? Will it give us more water to share? Will it lessen gridlock traffic? Will it lower the cost of gas? Will it make our food cheaper? Will it make it easier to go skiing and camping up I-70 with another three million people driving cars?
Lester Brown, publisher of "State of the World" should sober up any reader seeing what's happening in Colorado: "We recently entered a new century, but we are also entering a new world, one where the collisions between our demands and the earth's capacity to satisfy them are becoming daily events. It may be another crop-withering heat wave, another village abandoned because of invading sand dunes, or another aquifer pumped dry. If we do not act quickly to reverse the trends, these seemingly isolated events will occur more and more frequently, accumulating and combining to
determine our future.
"Resources that accumulated over eons of geological time are being consumed in a single human lifespan. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize. These deadlines, determined by nature, are not politically negotiable.
"Nature has many thresholds that we discover only when it is too late. In our fast-forward world, we learn that we have crossed them only after the fact, leaving little time to adjust. For example, when we exceed the sustainable catch of a fishery, the stocks begin to shrink. Once this threshold is crossed, we have a limited time in which to back off and lighten the catch. If we fail to meet this deadline, breeding populations shrink to where the fishery is no longer viable, and it collapses.
"We know from earlier civilizations that the lead indicators of economic decline were environmental, not economic. The trees went first, then the soil, and finally the civilization itself. To archeologists, the sequence is all too familiar.
"Our situation today is far more challenging because in addition to shrinking forests and eroding soils, we must deal with falling water tables, more frequent crop-withering heat waves, collapsing fisheries, expanding deserts, deteriorating rangelands, dying coral reefs, melting glaciers, rising seas, more-powerful storms, disappearing species, and, soon, shrinking oil supplies. Although these ecologically destructive trends have been evident for some time, and some have been reversed at
the national level, not one has been reversed at the global level.
"The bottom line is that the world is in what ecologists call an "overshoot-and-collapse" mode. Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural systems at the local level countless times in the past. Now, for the first time, it is doing so at the global level. Forests are shrinking for the world as a whole. Fishery collapses are widespread. Grasslands are deteriorating on every continent. Water tables are falling in many countries. Carbon dioxide levels multiply beyond nature's ability
to maintain a balance."
Our future demands a stable population. Our lives and this planet demand a stable, sustainable population. I challenge the Denver Post editors to write a weekly column on the dangers of added population instead of celebrating more growth. I invite the DP to invite yours truly to write it since no one on the DP staff possesses my experience! I challenge Dean Singleton to invite me into his office with all his top staff members to see my program: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN COLORADO:
AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT".
To continue celebrating growth as the answer to Colorado's or America's future is like asking a man who can't swim to jump into the Colorado River to save woman who can't swim. Both will be swept down stream and drowned!
Take action: www.thesocialcontract.com; www.numbersusa.com; www.fairus.org ; www.firecoalition.com; www.alipac.us; www.capsweb.org; www.vdare.com; www.immigrationcounters.com; www.proenglish.org; www.cairco.org; www.politicaltruthandfact.com; www.immigrationshumancost.org; www.limitstogrowth.org
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 his website www.frostywooldridge.com
Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Tuesdays and Thursdays as he interviews top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots" at www.republicbroadcasting.org at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.
The Denver Post reported 4.3 million newborns in 2006, "...mostly due to a growing number of Hispanics,white and ethnic groups were having more babies, too."
What's wrong with this picture? Why would economists respond with, "...the increase in births is good news."
Einstein said, "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity."
What didn't they tell us? What's causing our population growth to explode beyond carrying capacity? Easy answer: we're immigrating over 2.1 and as high as 2.5 million more people into this country every year-both legal and illegal.
Why do you think we suffer over two million immigrants annually? The simple fact stems from their overpopulated countries cannot provide jobs, food, housing and water. In other words, the poor of those countries become the new poor of our country. Which, in turn, creates our own population dilemma that will create the same overloaded population crisis here in Colorado and the rest of the U.S.
What's good about magnifying more human population into the USA with cities suffering gridlocked traffic, overcrowded schools, mega-brown clouds and water shortages?
Here in Colorado, we face accelerating population problems reported by the Denver Post weekly. Last week, the DP announced that Colorado grew by 100,000 in 2007. The predictions state that we'll grow by three million people in three decades.
Name one good reason for adding three million to Colorado? Will it give us more water to share? Will it lessen gridlock traffic? Will it lower the cost of gas? Will it make our food cheaper? Will it make it easier to go skiing and camping up I-70 with another three million people driving cars?
Lester Brown, publisher of "State of the World" should sober up any reader seeing what's happening in Colorado: "We recently entered a new century, but we are also entering a new world, one where the collisions between our demands and the earth's capacity to satisfy them are becoming daily events. It may be another crop-withering heat wave, another village abandoned because of invading sand dunes, or another aquifer pumped dry. If we do not act quickly to reverse the trends, these seemingly isolated events will occur more and more frequently, accumulating and combining to
determine our future.
"Resources that accumulated over eons of geological time are being consumed in a single human lifespan. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize. These deadlines, determined by nature, are not politically negotiable.
"Nature has many thresholds that we discover only when it is too late. In our fast-forward world, we learn that we have crossed them only after the fact, leaving little time to adjust. For example, when we exceed the sustainable catch of a fishery, the stocks begin to shrink. Once this threshold is crossed, we have a limited time in which to back off and lighten the catch. If we fail to meet this deadline, breeding populations shrink to where the fishery is no longer viable, and it collapses.
"We know from earlier civilizations that the lead indicators of economic decline were environmental, not economic. The trees went first, then the soil, and finally the civilization itself. To archeologists, the sequence is all too familiar.
"Our situation today is far more challenging because in addition to shrinking forests and eroding soils, we must deal with falling water tables, more frequent crop-withering heat waves, collapsing fisheries, expanding deserts, deteriorating rangelands, dying coral reefs, melting glaciers, rising seas, more-powerful storms, disappearing species, and, soon, shrinking oil supplies. Although these ecologically destructive trends have been evident for some time, and some have been reversed at
the national level, not one has been reversed at the global level.
"The bottom line is that the world is in what ecologists call an "overshoot-and-collapse" mode. Demand has exceeded the sustainable yield of natural systems at the local level countless times in the past. Now, for the first time, it is doing so at the global level. Forests are shrinking for the world as a whole. Fishery collapses are widespread. Grasslands are deteriorating on every continent. Water tables are falling in many countries. Carbon dioxide levels multiply beyond nature's ability
to maintain a balance."
Our future demands a stable population. Our lives and this planet demand a stable, sustainable population. I challenge the Denver Post editors to write a weekly column on the dangers of added population instead of celebrating more growth. I invite the DP to invite yours truly to write it since no one on the DP staff possesses my experience! I challenge Dean Singleton to invite me into his office with all his top staff members to see my program: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN COLORADO:
AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT".
To continue celebrating growth as the answer to Colorado's or America's future is like asking a man who can't swim to jump into the Colorado River to save woman who can't swim. Both will be swept down stream and drowned!
Take action: www.thesocialcontract.com; www.numbersusa.com; www.fairus.org ; www.firecoalition.com; www.alipac.us; www.capsweb.org; www.vdare.com; www.immigrationcounters.com; www.proenglish.org; www.cairco.org; www.politicaltruthandfact.com; www.immigrationshumancost.org; www.limitstogrowth.org
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 his website www.frostywooldridge.com
Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Tuesdays and Thursdays as he interviews top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots" at www.republicbroadcasting.org at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.
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