population growth.
Once you read or watch Dr. Bartlett’s presentation, you will be more in touch with reality than Time’s Editor Richard Stengel. There’s no way we need to or can add 100 million people to the United States by 2040, which is 34 years from now.
I’ve seen Dr. Bartlett give his presentation personally. There’s no dancing around his facts, figures and harsh reality check. In my world travels, I’ve witnessed population growth’s worst outcomes. America already walks on the thin ice edge of our own demise with 300 million people. We either stabilize our U.S. population, or we become victims of our own numbers.
We cannot sustain unlimited growth. We cannot break the laws of nature as to “carrying capacity.” We cannot add 40 million more people to California and think we can provide water to drink, for crops, for animals, habitat for all other life and room to live a decent life. We cannot be THAT stupid, but, as of this writing, and in concert with Time Editor Richard Stengel, we are!
What to do? We must enact a 10 year moratorium on all immigration. We must create a National Population Policy. The human race can’t keep burning 80 million barrels of oil daily and maintain arrogance that all is well. We must develop alternative energy at breakneck speed. We must educate ourselves faster than we procreate ourselves.
"Unbeknownst to many Americans, there is overwhelming consensus among scientists that we are very close to reaching a point of no turning back on global warming, which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. We are approaching a point at which all of the following will become unavoidable: massive desertification, rising sea level, explosive growth of insect populations, widespread habitat destruction, mass extinctions, mass migrations (including of humans), the disappearance of sea life, and in all likelihood wars over drinking water that will make the wars over oil look civilized." David Swanson
“Exponential growth is adding one billion people to our planet every 12 years. Ninety percent of this growth stems from the developing world. The consequences are grave. Environmental destruction escalates as more people compete for water, land, clean air, food, fuel and amenities. Civil conflicts and ethnic wars roil societies as Balkanized people attempt to gain advantage through resource grabs at the expense of neighbors. Millions of the dispossessed are forced to migrate—straining the infrastructure and good will of richer nations.” William B. Dickinson author of the “The Biocentric Imperative”
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