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September 11, 2007 at 12:06:07

Overloaded Nations: Part 18--Next Added 100 Million Americans

by Frosty Wooldridge     Page 1 of 4 page(s)

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If you continue reading this series, and you don't think we're in trouble-- I seize this opportunity to bring your attention to other specialists who know we're in trouble. 

They've seen what I've seen.  They know what I know.   They understand; if you 'see' it, you comprehend it.   If you haven't, then, it's easy to deny or ignore it.  

Refresher: the "official" U.S. Census Bureau told us that we 'celebrated' three hundred million Americans in October 2006.  Meanwhile, Vanderbilt University reported the actual number exceeded 327 million.  

In the U.S., we overload demographic saturation levels more than the average voter realizes.

Would our government intentionally understate demographic numbers?

Nothing about the next added 100 million Americans can be ignored.  When the "new folks" manifest upon our shores, it's not like you can wave a magic wand to make them vanish.  

Lawrence Smith, President of the Population Institute, wrote for the Providence Journal on the overloaded populations developing around the world. 

Speaking at a symposium in the National Press Club last July, Smith said, "The eminent environmentalist Lester Brown said he was pondering a question I don't believe he, or anyone else, really wants answered:

'How many failed nation-states would it take to make a failed world?' "

"The World Bank, which prefers to call them 'fragile nation-states,' recently identified 26 countries that pose some of the world's "toughest development challenges, noting that all face similar hurdles:

ü      Weak security

ü      Fractured societal relations

ü      Corruption

ü      Breakdown in the rule of law

ü      Lack of mechanisms for generating legitimate power and authority."

These countries already experience massive human die-offs from famine and disease that we talked about earlier in this 100-million series.  Refresher: eight million people die every year from starvation globally.

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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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Except for repeated unsuccessful attempts to obtain a full-time job during the 1980s, my adult life has been spent in nuturing, and witnessing the progress of, my very large family. My personal evaluation of this experience is that it has contributed immeasurably to the expansion of my internal capacity to view other human beings as equal members of the human family before a loving Creator, and compellingly equal members of the society politic before our global institutions of government.
MyTwoCentsExcept for repeated unsuccessful attempts to obtain a full-time job during the 1980s, my adult life has been spent in nuturing, and witnessing the progress of, my very large family. My personal evaluation of this experience is that it has contributed immeasurably to the expansion of my internal capacity to view other human beings as equal members of the human family before a loving Creator, and compellingly equal members of the society politic before our global institutions of government.

Do the math

Before we tie ourselves into knots about how many children other people have, we should do the math.


* There are 25 million+ square feet in one square mile.


* There are 25 billion+ square feet in one thousand square miles.


* There are 30 billion square feet in 1200 square miles.


Therefore, with a 2 1/2' by 2 1/2' (five square feet) space for each of us - in which we can easily place a dining room size chair - all of us six billion people in the world could sit comfortably together in the state of Rhode Island, which is 1214 square miles in area.


Look at Rhode Island on the globe.


With technology, our globe can anticipate a remarkable abundance in our future. The wealth can be hogged by a few, or it can be intelligently designed so that each person in society has a place to serve and a place to receive. It will depend on our vision.

But our problems really won't be solved by the comfortable solution of "You got too many kids."

by MyTwoCents (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 36 comments) on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 12:27:56 PM
 

 

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