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Frosty Wooldridge
More About: EnvironmentOur Troubled Planet: Understanding Carrying Capacity or Drink Toilet Water
As gasoline continues rising toward its inevitable $5.00 and even $6.00 a gallon by October, and California’s drought worsens with strict water rationing becoming law—Americans, FINALLY, begin to understand their limits to growth and consumption!
In the movie “Dirty Harry”, Clint Eastwood said, “A man’s got to know his limitations…did he fire six shots or only five…well punk, which is it…do you know your limitations?”
While I hammer away at the immigration crisis facing America year after year, our Congress pours more human gasoline on the fire of our consequences by adding 182,000 immigrants every 30 days, month in and month out, year in and year out. Today, those consequences grow gargantuan beyond solving.
As you read in my last column, California faces a horrific human flood of 1,600 people added daily to that state. They cannot solve anything while everything goes to hell in a hand basket!
Rancher Gaylan Stewart of Spanish Fork, Utah wrote a letter on ‘carrying capacity’:
“I grew up on a ranch and so I know full well
what you mean when you speak of "carrying capacity,” Stewart said. “If we over-grazed, we paid for it later, but
this didn't stop some of our neighbors. In fact, after they had overgrazed, they allowed their animals to push
our fences until they were down and then their animals would move in and graze
our pastures as well. Is there an analogy here? We put them back in and
fix the fence, but before long grazed in our pastures again. So, instead
of putting them back we started putting the "strays" out on the
railroad tracks and roadways where they were scattered far and wide. Of
course this angered the neighbor, but he got the message.
“As for
California,
they need to drink their own toilet water until they get the message. I
live in
Utah
and we have always had a water shortage. Droughts come and go and some
are real disasters, but if you have not been pushing the "carrying
capacity" it is easier to survive.
California and the rest of the Southwest
have increased the population beyond the water capacity, and we are only one
severe drought away from disaster, where we all may be drinking our own toilet
water.”
Gentle reader, as you can see, we’re piling up
irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems. Yet, not one presidential candidate addresses
it and you, the American public, remain silent as a church mouse. Who will speak out if not you?
”As for the overpopulation, you are right, it is caused by our immigration
problem, both legal and illegal,” Stewart said. “We as a nation are in an
economic mindset that traps us into ever increasing population growth, with no
one looking at the end game. You and I won't see it, but there is a possibility
of a billion Americans by the end of the century, yuck! However, this is
really not likely to happen, because some really bad things will happen first:
war, pestilence, famine and such.
”The desire for cheap, imported, unskilled labor would appear to be the main
driving force, but I believe there is another force just as powerful: a
capitalist desire for an expanding number of consumers to sell all of the junk
and services to. All of our business models require an increase in number
of customers of one sort or another. Sometimes one business can steal
customers from another, but there would be far fewer "successful"
businesses if there were not an increase in customer numbers. The housing
industry is a perfect example of this. The faster the population growth the
more wealth to be made! In order to maintain this, population must
continually grow faster and faster each year.
”Of course you and I know that this cannot go on forever, and things will have
to get worse before we will be able to break the cycle and see that we must get
out of it, that we are fouling our own nests. As you know the birthrate
of Native Americans has dropped to near the 2.1 per family replacement
rate. If immigration, legal and illegal were stopped prosperity would be limited.
However, if
California
finds itself in a disastrous drought and the country slips into a serious
recession, the people are not going to want to pay the fare for illegal
immigrants that are also unable to find jobs and will force the government to
deal with it.
”These things can change very quickly. For example yesterday the Bush
Administration decided to use E-verify to ferret out illegal aliens working on
government projects. They are not doing this because it is the right
thing to do, they are doing it because illegal aliens are causing the jobless
rate to increase. Illegal aliens are not listed in the jobless rate,
because they can't apply for unemployment benefits and support from Workforce
Services in finding a job. Therefore, if they lose their job and it goes
to a legal worker, it doesn't add to the jobless rate and it then appears that
the jobless rate isn't increasing as rapidly, which is bad for all
politicians. I think this is only the first step, and as the economy
worsens we will see more and more resistance to illegal immigration.
”By the way I don't think the ethnic side of the issue is anywhere near being a
major part of the problem. If the people begin to see that illegal aliens
are taking their jobs and using the taxpayer services at their expense while
they suffer economically, the illegal aliens will be gone. Greed has
brought them here and our economic self-interest will force them out, without
having to round them up I might add.
”Pessimistic, yes; but like they say challenges that don't kill us, actually
make us better and stronger.”
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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked 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.
To take action: www.numbersusa.com
Final note: I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates to add to my monthly “Master Mind Think Tank.” In reality, our politicians foment the problems that they campaign to solve. They never solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos. I need new ideas and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto the front burner: overpopulation in America caused by ceaseless legal and illegal immigration. As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years. We need to stop it and we need to stop it now. Join me in saving our civilization. frostyw@juno.com
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 www.frostywooldridge.com
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “ Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “ Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “ Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “ Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:
http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364
Frosty Wooldridge