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Fellow citizens, Jack Hart gets it! When are you going to ‘get it’?


Hart continued, “Population drives immigration, too. Consider Mexico, which quadrupled in population between 1933 and 1980. The only way it could avoid collapse was by flooding the United States with the excess. Projections call for countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to double their populations every 20 years, and many of those people will inevitably find their way to the United States. Ninety-one percent of our population growth over the next 40 years will come from post-2000 immigrants and their descendants.”

The non-Anglo nature of that immigration may explain why some Americans think it's racist to mention it. But a sane discussion of immigration's impact on the environment has nothing to do with race. The quality of American life will be forever damaged by the arrival of 100 million immigrants, whether they're Mexican or English or French.

Again, let’s quit pretending that technology will save our civilization. It won’t!

Hart continued, “If you want to help, don't waste your time on inconsequential environmental work that treats the symptoms while ignoring the disease. A carpooling project saved -- according to its own chest-thumping claims -- 3,000 tons of CO2 over five years. That's pathetic -- we could have accomplished the same thing by slowing metro-area population growth by 30 people a year.”

Five ways to help the planet

1. Eliminate the taboo that keeps us from talking about the root cause of our environmental -- and many other -- problems. Concern about overpopulation is not racist, communist, sexist or biased against the Third World. We all have a stake in this.

2. Quit mistaking per-capita pollution numbers as a sign of progress. Let's track the totals, of carbon dioxide and every other human pollutant.

3. Reward politicians who support population control with your votes. Eliminate tax breaks for more than two children. Focus foreign aid on population-control programs. Campaign for a new worldwide ethic in favor of small families.

4. Keep your own family small. World population will eventually level off only if we hold average births per woman to 2.06. We'll reduce the world population to a sustainable size only if women average no more than 1.7 children.

5. Stop treating growth as not only inevitable, but also positive. Despite recent reports, a slowdown in metro-area housing starts is not bad news.

-- Jack Hart

As I write each week, more and more Americans understand that ALL our problems stem from overpopulation. Now, more and more writers stand up with the guts to address what we face. Since we maintain a stable population, we must stop immigrating 200,000 people into this country every 30 days. That's two Rose Bowl stadiums filled every month, then emptied into the USA, then filled again and emptied--month after month, year after year. As I provoke the discussion, I urge you to take action on behalf of your children and future generations—both human as well as plant and animal.

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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked for input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

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