Lack of water: THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS By Frosty Wooldridge
By mid October, 2006, America reached 300 million people. In the next 34 years, through unrelenting immigration, the United States of America adds another 100 million people. By 2050, our country adds 20 million to reach a total of 430 million. Many experts expect higher numbers. Is it a milestone, millstone or societal nightmare?
In the face of scientific evidence of our polar ice caps melting, accelerating species extinction, water shortages, soil erosion, air pollution, acid rain and vanishing farmland-where can we find a national leader to address America's worst crisis early in the 21ST century? Overpopulation! No leader in the Catholic, Protestant or Jewish churches speaks out.
While the Pope witnesses starvation, misery and suffering worldwide, he promotes maximum human birth rates. Islam commits to the same agenda. Church leaders will not budge from their 2000 year old dogmas. They refuse to step into the realities of the 21st century.
U.S. industry giants won't speak about it. President Bush ignores it. All 50 U.S. governors flee this subject. No U.S. senator touches it. Most Americans vehemently deny its reality. They're like the late Ray Charles injecting himself with heroin for years while denying it harmed his life.
A few like Colorado's U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo and former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm speak realistically about it.
But, like the Amtrak Express on the midnight run, it's comin' and it's comin' fast.
Have you ever heard of "silent-assertion"? Mark Twain said in 1860, "The shabbiest of all lies is the lie of silent-assertion...it happens when politicians, presidents, the media and all leaders obfuscate, deny, suppress or ignore a social wrong or anything deleterious occurring inside American society." In his time, slavery continued as the silent-assertion of the day until it exploded into states rights and the Civil War.
Today, you witness in the halls of Congress and the White House a complete abrogation of common sense, civic responsibility, action for the common good and rational thinking toward the future. With each new scandal, such as Congressman Mark Foley of Florida soliciting young boys, an aberrant side-dish serves up weekly that detracts from the harsh realities we face.
James Madison said, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
We face an invasion by Mexico so crippling, so debilitating, so preposterous in its scope-that any public servant with an ounce of brain power would step up like President Eisenhower and stop it! Instead, Bush and members of Congress stand around scratching their rear-ends.
We face disaster from our southern border. In the last century, Mexico expanded from 50 million poverty stricken peasants to 104 million today. In this century, because the Catholic Church encourages unlimited births, Mexico will explode to 300 million, which is three times as many as today. If you think they will ever solve their problems, think again.
As this population overload advances, we face major water dilemmas.
In a September 30, 2006 Rocky Mountain News report, Boulder scientists predict grim drought forecasts for the West. They used eighteen of the world's most powerful computer climate models. Martin Hoerling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, "Climate change is moving us in the direction of a perpetual state that is of the Dust Bowl type."
Scientists expect increased evaporation and drier soils leading to more severe and frequent droughts. Hoerling said, "Droughts could be 25 percent worse than the 1930s Dust Bowl days."
Who stands to suffer the greatest risk? Today, citizens downstream of the Colorado River devour 13.5 million acre feet of the river. Bob Raynolds of NOAA said, "We're going to have to adapt our survival strategies to coping with less water."
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
a cheap and self-starting water-pumping system which can operate from the solar power and should be installed in the deserts everywhere. Incidentally, being an immigrant( legal and all), first generation I would argue that such system should be also installed in Mexico ( although I am not a Mexican). I hope to eventually promote that although it is tough. But , something good comes from the immigrants after all, not just nuisance:)
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Mark Sashine (53 articles, 19 quicklinks, 250 diaries, 3574 comments)
on Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 1:58:11 PM
Yes, immigration drives America's overpopulation crisis, however, my intent is to educate and motivate. In the end, as the next added 100 million Americans comes to fruition, all races, creeds and colors will be victims. We'll all become 'environmental refugees'. This is a human dilemma. Kindest regards, Frosty Wooldridge
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Frosty Wooldridge (99 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 41 comments)
on Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 2:15:56 PM
What happens to the water table? What happens to the sacred springs of the Navajo and the Hopi, which are already being trashed by mining? What happens to those whose wells are already running dry?
All being able to pump more out of the ground does is postpone the inevitable a bit.
There are too many people in a fragile ecology, destroying the quality of life and soon any chance of supporting life at all. And our elected representatives do nothing about it and will do nothing about it. The coming North American Union and the final and complete death of our Constitution benefits them and the corporations that own them. Cheap labor and 'free trade' are more important than saving the very land we live on, the water we drink and the air we breathe.
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Robin in the 'Dale (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 12 comments)
on Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 8:42:26 PM
As you read through this 20 part series, it will become abundantly clear that we have dug ourselves a hole we may not be able to climb out of any time soon. I speak all over the country on dilemma: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT". We need a national population policy and a 10 year moratorium on all immigration and after that, max of 100,000 per year only if that brings about a stable population. We face a human dilemma on a global scale. We must help those countries with economic aid and family planning assitance to solve their problems in their own countries. We can't save the world by immigrating millions of people endlessly, but we can destroy our country's ability to maintain a sustainable future. Kindest regards, Frosty Wooldridge
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Frosty Wooldridge (99 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 41 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 11:17:18 AM
Our water crisis will suffer a multiplier effect by adding 100 million to the USA in 33 years. California will add 20 million by 2035 at current growth rates. Texas will add 12 million by 2025. Colorado, where I live, will add 6 million. When you add the Global Warming factor which will be covered in this series, we keep painting ourselves into a corner. When Bush said he would reduce oil consumption by 20%, he didn't tell you that the US population would grow by 30 million in the same ten year period. No one wants to talk about it or deal with it, but it's a fact, that the consequences will deal with us one day. Kindest regards, Frosty Wooldridge
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Frosty Wooldridge (99 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 41 comments)
on Friday, February 2, 2007 at 11:21:30 AM
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