"It brings more homeless, more unemployed, more people living in poverty, more traffic congestion, higher parking fees, more school crowding, more unhappy neighborhoods, more expensive government, more and higher taxes, more fiscal problems for the state, more air and water pollution, higher utility costs, diminished democracy, crowded highways, growing costs of infrastructure maintenance, higher food costs and more destruction of the environment."
You will encounter a more-and-more: overloaded campgrounds, beaches, ski resorts, more litter, higher gas costs, greater housing costs, water shortages and loss of choices and personal freedom. "It's not clear why the government would think that people would want all these known consequences of growth," Bartlett lamented. "Crude oil increased from $20 a barrel in 2002 to $100 a barrel in 2008. If this rate continues we would look at $500 a barrel in another six years." Culprit? You guessed it!
Immigration, legal & illegal, causes 80 percent of our growth!
"Water restrictions frequently make the news," Bartlett said. "By their continued promotion of growth, the innumerates are speeding the arrival of painful but predictable shortages and consequent rationing of gasoline, natural gas and water across America. These problems won't be solved by a nickel's worth of "Smart Growth" tacked onto billions of dollars worth of urban sprawl."
Bartlett concluded, "The arithmetic of population, resources and growth is inexorable. The consequences of the arithmetic cannot be avoided by believing that "Wishing will make it so." (Walt Disney's First Law)
Adding to Bartlett's brilliant understanding of our predicament, we must consider new ideas.
- Reduce all immigration to less than 100,000 annually.
- We must initiate an "American Carrying Capacity Policy;"
- "American Environmental Impact Policy,"
- "American Energy Conservation Policy" and
- "American Water Usage Policy."
Further, each state must also create such policies, in concert. We must come to terms with a stable population that lives within this nation's carrying capacity ten and even 100 years from now. Does any of this make sense to you? If the next president recklessly ignores the obvious – and creates the aforementioned open-borders immigration amnesties, our growth rate will resemble a brake-less train heading toward the edge of the Grand Canyon.
I guarantee you this: if we don't stop that train now, nature will do it rather brutally thirty years hence— if not sooner.
Please Google University of Colorado's Dr. Al Bartlett's "Thoughts on Immigration into the United States." Additionally, "Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment." 2006
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website.
- "The world is a dangerous place - not because of those who do evil - but because of those who look on, and do nothing." -- Albert Einstein
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