Michael Specter, “The Last Drop,” The New Yorker, October 23, 2006, said, “Nearly half the people in the world don’t have the kind of clean water and sanitation services that were available two thousands years ago to the citizens of ancient Rome. More than a billion people lack access to drinking water, and at least that many have never seen a toilet. In the past decade, more people have died from diarrhea than people have been killed in all the armed conflicts since World War II.”
China, at 1.3 billion people, numbs my mind’s ability to comprehend their problems. The Wall Street Journal headlined “A Poison Spreads amid China’s Boom” September 30, 2006, “Toxic sludge sinks villages and people die without recourse. The lack of pollution controls has contaminated China’s soil, water and air with lead, mercury and other pollutants and left millions of children with dangerously high levels of toxic metals in their blood.”
Every consequence experienced by India, China and Bangladesh stems from hyper-overpopulation. Every aspect of their human suffering stems from too many people. Every condition heaped upon their citizens stems from disregard of a rational and sustainable population policy. All the while, the elites live above it while the people sink deeper into its clutches.
As William B. Dickinson said, “Our cavalier attitude toward big population increases never ceases to amaze. When the U.S. hit 300 million in October, the New York Times concluded in an editorial, October 11, 2006, that, ‘In America, growth and vitality are the same thing…our population issues have mysterious ways of working themselves out.” That’s like saying if we can put 10 basketball players onto one court to play a game, we surely could put 100 on the court and we’re sure everything will mysteriously work out.”
If the New York Times expresses that kind of stupidity with their statement on “mysterious ways of working themselves out,” we might as well return to the Dark Ages where reason and critical thinking suffered under religious dogma.
E.O. Wilson wrote “The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth.” He describes humanity as “the giant meteorite of our time…a species blinded by ignorance and self-absorption.”
Which brings me to the question: Are Americans as dumb and docile as the Chinese and Indians, or citizens of Bangladesh fifty years ago? How far down the population rabbit hole will we allow our nation to dive? At what point on the misery scale will we begin to say, “Enough population is enough!” How far into the negative headlines do we want our children to suffer for our folly?
I still don’t think anyone in America ‘gets it’ as to our perilous path. I’ve attempted to become a guest on Oprah, 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose, Night Line, Larry King Live, Date Line, Good Morning America, Today and The Early Show. I’ve tried to interview on Hannity, Colmes, Situation Room, Cavuto, Russert, Mathews, Carlson, Face the Nation, Meet the Press and dozens of other programs. I’ve sent graphs, facts, figures and information sheets to top newspaper publishers across the country. No response! They choose brain death over critical thinking.
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