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June 11, 2008 at 19:19:05

Solutions Create More Problems: America's Growing Dilemma

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Re: Dr. Albert Bartlett at Chautauqua/6/9/08 Boulder, CO

On Monday night, June 9th, CU's Dr. Albert Bartlett presented to an overflow crowd at Boulder's Chautauqua Park--a compelling reality check on energy and overpopulation. Current energy prices indicate 'symptoms' of our greater dilemmas as to water, clean air, food and natural gas shortages. We import a 'perfect storm' of consequences into our country monthly.

He said, "Our solutions have created more problems! Every time we add an extra lane to I-25, we create ever greater traffic flow. That, in turn, creates more air pollution and traffic gridlock. That creates greater demand and higher fuel prices. We cannot continue on our current consumption path."

A rapt audience listened as Dr. Bartlett talked with the moderator Richard as they walked through the CU professor's fascinating journey as a dishwasher on an ore freighter in 1940 to his earning a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard. He hitch-hiked and jumped trains to travel across America. He reported to Los Alamos for work on the Manhattan Project. Later, he arrived at CU to teach. He continues teaching humanity today. His lecture provides this country with a stunning look into our future if we fail to address overpopulation.

While he joked and laughed with Richard, to the delight of the audience, his message remained deadly serious. The United States cannot continue consuming and overpopulating along its current path. He addressed our inability to discover an alternative energy. Even if we did, it would take 50 years to implement.

While he talked, I took notes that the USA imports 100,000 legal immigrants and an average of 82,000 illegal migrants every 30 days, month in and month out, year in and year out, our country grows by 2.1 million immigrants annually. (Source: http://www.cis.org/">www.cis.org and click here

Average birthrate of American females equates to 2.03 children, which allows us a stable civilization. However, the March 2008 Pew Report projected the USA will add 100 million people by 2035, which is less than 30 years from now. Immigration forces two-thirds of that population growth. Additionally, the world grows by 77 million annually-thus we solve nothing, but we create an unsustainable future for our children.

How does that serve us? Dr. Bartlett said, "Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases of population, locally, nationally, or globally."

At the end of his presentation, Dr. Bartlett sobered the audience with our colliding with a resource limited future. "Whether it's 10 years from now or 50 years, we're running out of oil," he said. "Without it, we cannot support millions of people in cities."

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Frosty Wooldridge Bio: 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. His books include, "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"; "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE"; "BICYCLING AROUND THE WORLD"; "MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND-A TEEN NOVEL"; "AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER: ANTARCTICA"; "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES." www.frostywooldridge.com

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American Expat in Asia
pftAmerican Expat in Asia

Well

The problem is that we need to increase population to maintain the illusion of economic growth, since the master plan is to lower our living standards to be comparable to the rising living standards of the developing world. Then we can be merged. Declining living standards with a stable population means recession or worse.

Those in Congress and our current and future Presiendts have a global outlook, they are globalists, not Americans. Decisions are made not based on what is good for America, but what they believe is good for the World, which is not necessarily good for Americans.

Once you understand that, all becomes clear. There is a defacto global government, they just have not told us. Globalization, ain't it great.

by pft (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 466 comments) on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 9:32:37 PM

Stanimal is ???

I hear cries for freedom elsewhere, while the US becomes less so. I hear support for free markets, then demanding a bailout due to incompetence.
I roll my eyes at those that accuse others being oppressed while the US has and still continues to the same and much worse. Laughing at pinheads who purchase and profit from those they curse.

Every time I return to visit I see a country I no longer recognize. A shredded Constitution, a spineless Congress ...

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StanimalStanimal is ???

I hear cries for freedom elsewhere, while the US becomes less so. I hear support for free markets, then demanding a bailout due to incompetence.
I roll my eyes at those that accuse others being oppressed while the US has and still continues to the same and much worse. Laughing at pinheads who purchase and profit from those they curse.

Every time I return to visit I see a country I no longer recognize. A shredded Constitution, a spineless Congress ...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Ahh Chautauquq, in the land

of the bastion of hypocrisy. I have fond memories of the place and its beloved Flatirons soar above it. Saw many a famous musician play and scholar lecture there. Watching the community of Volkswagens and old Volvo's, and quaint homes in the Valley of chief Niwot , who declared that "Who ever cast their eyes on the Flatirons will never leave this valley".

As the decades wore on I witnessed those same people who used to support Mother's grocery, in a converted old gas station similar to the Texaco station I described I worked at while in high school in Jim Freeman's "Exxon extorting more profit from their independent retailers". Exchange those cheap sources of transportation for the BMW's, Land Rovers and Mercedes SUV's whose tires have never left pavement today.

Watching Gunbarrel, Louisville, Longmont, Broomfield and the other surrounding community's convert ranch-land into the subdivisions that ring the open space of Boulder today. As ever more remodeling of homes that were just remodeled by the previous property owner to maximize their resale value.

Then I relocated to Eldorado Spgs., and saw the transformation of modest cabins turned into McMansions by their propertys dimensions, adding more water intensive bathrooms, clothes/dish-washing machines without enlarging their septic systems and leach fields, with the runoff flowing into South Boulder Creek.

While I resided just above the village taking care of the horses, that were run out by the open space director Jim Bond. As it didn't fit his ideal of a multi-million horse-barn, and our dumping of the manure around the valley for fertilizing flower beds and vegetable gardens.

Boulder is reaping what it has sown long ago, and now forces out the college graduate with master's in mathematics and PHD's in physics, who were the waiters and dishwashers of the restaurants down on the mall. For the illegal who is much cheaper to employ and easier to dispose after they demand a higher hourly wage.

by Stanimal (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 18 diaries, 497 comments) on Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 12:55:44 AM