On my weekly radio show “Connecting the Dots”, I interview expert guests from all over the country. They bring sobering information to my national audience on the condition of America.
Dr. Brian Czech talked about “steady state economics” while physicist Don McKee warned of water shortages from our exploding population. Dozens more speak on our future. As I attempt each week to connect the dots, I receive emails detracting from my guests.
One writer said, “Wooldridge is nothing more than a tree-hugger environmental kook!” Another said, “Global warming is a fairy tale.” Another lady wrote, “Overpopulation isn’t our problem; it’s China’s.”
First of all, I assure every reader of my columns that I not only research and source them, I’ve lived them. I’ve traveled all over the planet for 30 years. I’ve seen what I’m talking about from the Arctic to the South Pole. My entire 36 chapter series, “THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS” should have frightened the pants off every reader. If you’ve got kids, those kids will be living in the middle of what I call a “Human Katrina” and they will become victims or survivors.
Adding 100 million people to this country in 30 years won’t spare anyone whether they are a conservative, liberal, libertarian, independent, religious, atheist, deist or agnostic. We’re all in this dilemma together.
For others, read Jared Diamond’s “COLLAPSE” on the demise of civilizations in the past to gain perspective of what we’re doing to ourselves. Diamond earned a Pulitzer Prize for his book, “GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL”. Everything he wrote about, I saw in person. I traveled further from the Arctic to the South Pole.
As I’ve recommended in my radio show, subscribe to The Social Contract Quarterly at www.thesocialcontract.com. Every quarter, you’ll get an eyeful of what our children face by the finest scientists and writers in the world. This month’s Spring 2007 issue hits home: 1 800 352 4843. It’s titled: “THE DECLINE OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION.” You’ll understand why I speak, write and travel all over the country to stop both legal and illegal immigration.
After speaking at the International Rotary Conference in Salt Lake City last week, my program received a standing ovation by attendees from many nations. Top rotary leaders from 100 countries and 50 states understand our dilemma. Go to www.rifpd.org to learn more. Again, I’m doing my best to connect the dots for Americans to help them change our future from a nightmare to a continuation of the American Dream. I’m also doing it for all planetary travelers. We’re all in this together.
When you get your copy of the Quarterly Spring 2007 issue, read Jay Hanson, Donald Anthrop, Dr. Albert Bartlett, Dr. Richard Duncan and Edwin Rubenstein. They’ll take your breath away.
Here are three quotes that brought it home for me:
SERIOUS REALITIES WE FACE AS A CIVILIZATION
"The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human lifetime....so I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves move toward depletion, we will indeed be left with an enormous population...that the ecology of the earth will not support. No political program of birth control will avail. The journey back toward non-oil population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will discover the hard way that population hyper growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age. It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck with it." James Howard Kunstler
“As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this century, will the “civil” part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid.” Walter Youngquist
“The U.S. will set a record in the rate of rise—and fall of an empire. Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and growing population against a declining resource base, the US will be defeated from within. Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third largest in the world and unable to support its population except by taking resources from other countries.” Arnold Toynbee
What’s happening across America to prevent our ominous future? Mostly nothing as we play out the oil supplies! We’re like an idiot with a car at the edge of the Sahara Desert who drives into it with a full tank of gas and a bottle of water. When he reaches the end of the tank and his bottle of water, he will be in the middle of nowhere with no way to save himself. He will die!
Bush and Congress pretend that ethanol, hybrid cars and conservation will solve our oil crisis and reduce usage by 20 percent by 2017. They don’t tell you we’ll add 30 million people into the USA in the next 10 years.
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
My suggestion would be to immediately charge 5.00 dollars for a gallon of gasoline AND MANDATE that the additional profits generated go towards alternative energy research and development. I'd also rebate every American consumer 10% off of their income taxes if they own and primarily drive a car that gets over 35 miles to the gallon.
By the way, ethanol is NOT the answer, at most it may be a minor regional asset.
Oil profits that are being reinvested in oil dependent businesses and oil dependent products are hastening our demise 10 fold, are you listening Wall Street?
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Alessandro Machi (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 174 comments)
on Friday, July 6, 2007 at 3:21:09 PM
Yes, how about $8.00 a gallon for eight cylinder cars, $6.00 a gallon for six cylinder cars, $4 a gallon for four cylinder cars, $2.00 a gallon for motorcycles. How about a National Population Policy to define a sustainable number of people that can live on this finite chunk of land? How about an National Environmental Impact Study and Carrying Capacity Survey to assure humans and animals can maintain a viable existence into the future? We need to get down to reality fast before this "Human Katrina" swallows any chance for our society to continue.
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Frosty Wooldridge (91 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 38 comments)
on Friday, July 6, 2007 at 5:30:23 PM
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