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November 20, 2007 at 11:46:25

In the United States: Too Many People

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By Frosty Wooldridge

"Too Many People: Case for Reversing Growth"  by Lindsey Grant

This past week, an email arrived that marks a poignant aspect of America's greatest dilemma in the early years of the 21st century.

In this country, most of our citizens and all of our leaders stick their heads into the sand, bury their brains in mud and talk about everything but the overpopulation dilemma that defines America in the 21st century.  Additionally, by avoiding it at all costs, it gains greater speed like a Rocky Mountain avalanche, like an asteroid headed for the center of our planet and like the Titanic speeding toward that fateful iceberg in the North Atlantic.

In spite of one of the most educated citizenry on the planet – our nation drives itself, at increasing rates of speed – over a cliff.  Religious groups refuse to talk about it as if Galileo returned to expose their folly of thinking that the universe revolved around Earth. They placed him under house arrest for the rest of his life and he promised not to advocate the sun as the center of this solar system under threat of death.

Political groups avoid it like the plague.  Yet it's coming as surely as the dawn!

Arizona; a fine example – nearing seven million already

A lady named Jacqueline in Arizona wrote, "Consider my state – dry and water poor – which grew 40 percent in the ten years between 1990-2000 – with a 2000 population of 4,057,208.  The 2006 estimate shows us at 6,166,318 – and no restraint in sight.  It is not only the presidential candidates who refuse to discuss population, but environmentalists, political parties, and think-tanks much less the Catholic Church or other religious tribes to mention this so obvious problem.

"I recently held a meeting to talk about immigration and its relationship to how rapidly the U.S. is growing, and showed Roy Beck's VCR "Immigration by the Numbers."  The County Democratic Party Chairperson walked out – calling it 'a scare tactic.' "

Shoot the mailman; denial runs deep

Hundreds of well-meaning readers write me – telling me that I'm wrong about overpopulation.  Many of them tell me it's a food distribution problem – where millions wouldn't starve daily if they enjoyed better food distribution.  Others offer their reasons.

What do they all share in common?  Their intellectual grids remain imbedded within the security of the United States of America in the year 2007.  Yes!  It's safe here, right now, in this moment.  Their emotions remain stuck in paradigms of growth, expansion and unending development.  They can't think past their noses.

The United States expects an added 100 million people by 2040.

That is the "official" prognostication, from the U.S. Census Bureau – which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce – doing their best to distract and pacify YOU.   Experts at Vanderbilt University tell us we already have 334 million – with the 400 million likely to occur as soon as the year 2020.  Ask yourself, "Why is unfettered population growth automatically a good thing ?"

No one even blinks at the ramifications facing our children.  It's almost as if we're contestants on "The Price is Right" and we keep spinning the wheel to hit on the same category: "DUMB."  While attackers of population stabilization enjoy enough gasoline, natural gas and food today— they don't comprehend their children's reality.

Of course, the residents of the Southeast U.S. (Georgia, specifically) suffer a drought that will prove a national disaster for millions.  Never mind that Georgia will grow by more than five to seven million more people in 35 to 40 years!  Never think about Arizona's projected growth to 15.3 million!  Forget about California DOUBLING – adding its projected 42 million people in America's version of Bangladesh and China!  Are you hearing paranoia here – or common sense?

"TOO MANY PEOPLE: The Case for Reversing Growth"

The imminent population expert, Lindsey Grant wrote, "TOO MANY PEOPLE: The Case for Reversing Growth" with a sobering look into what our civilization faces in the near future.  He doesn't use 'scare' tactics.  He doesn't exaggerate.

Grant – like Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Copernicus and other great minds before him— presents the facts, the obvious and the reality-check needed in this century.  We cannot keep our 'sustainable growth' façade much longer.  'Smoke-and-mirrors' is failing us.  Too much reality piles up on our front door steps.  Even the Pope at some point must change his stance – or lose millions more to overpopulation consequences.  No longer can we keep running, hiding and pretending.

The human raced quadrupled from 1.6 billion to 6.7 billion in the last century.  The United States jumped from 75 million to 300 million.

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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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George Bush: the best reason not to believe in intelligent design.
kanawahGeorge Bush: the best reason not to believe in intelligent design.

US over populstion (the world over population)

The only thing I can say is "Can you say lemmings"?

I can remember stories about this in the past.  One was about a closed environment into which several pairs of rats were placed.  They were given a constant large amount of food.  After about 6 months the results were horrendous.  Bands of 'rogue' rats (male and female) wondered around the enclosure, randomly killing and eating (yes cannibalism) other rats, even though the food supply was still more than was needed to sustain the "rat world".

To some extent, some of the aspects that the test revealed are just now starting to surface here and abroad.

 The future does not look good for our children and grand children.

 If we do not correct the problem, nature will.  Either by our own hand of by the hand of nature (environmental break down), the population WILL be reduced.

by kanawah (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 9:22:42 PM
 


I am a retired civil servant. I was an electronics technician.
BarkerI am a retired civil servant. I was an electronics technician.

Been there, done that

I have been writing about this for some time.  I ask you; how many children do you have?  I have no children, and plan on one child and adoption.

 In the past thirty years I have seen the home evolve from a yard to rowhouses.  As time goes on, people live in ever smaller housing because they can't afford a home.

We are living in the land of plenty, as are Eurorpe, Australia and Japan.  It is easy to consume and produce too much (witness the number of obese Americans) and we are paying the price.

by Barker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 113 comments) on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 10:00:52 AM
 


Wanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors
M. DavisWanna be member of the anti-word police, author, columnist, activist and muckraker extraordinaire. Author of:Land, Legacy and Lynching: Building the Future for Black AmericaUrban Asylum: Politics, Lunatics and the Refrigerator Woman Contributing editor: (works in progress)Red, Black, Brown & Green: Ethnic People and the Move to Economic Self-Suficiency Screaming Doors (novel) Screaming Doors

Obesity and population

We remain confused and think that obesity is a sign of prosperity, when it is the exact opposite. Obesity is the sign of a dying population which is subsisting on too many empty,sugary, corn syrup diets.

It has become too expensive for the average person to eat a healthy diet and those who are under the delusion that they are "eating healthy" are blind to the fact that our food crops are delivering 40% nutrients than they did 40 years ago.

This means that even when you can afford fresh vegetables, those foods are not delivering as much nutrition as you think.  Then, add to that the massive rise in the cost of fresh vegetables, the hormone-poisoned franken-meat we shovel in our mouths and you have a variety of health disasters which include cancers, early puberty, obesity, diabetes and scores of other diet related illnesses.

Corn syrup, the most popular sweetner in the food industry, is, quite frankly, fattening us up for the kill.  It is increasing the incicdence of obesity; it increases the frequency of diabetes and it is empty of nutrients.

Add growth hormones, sysnthetic plant hormones and who knows what else to our diet and we have become a nation of sick, fat, tired people who have infested areas not meant to support massive numbers of resource hungry humans.

 

by M. Davis (39 articles, 2 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 137 comments) on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 5:35:22 PM
 

 

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