However, as we progress into the 21st century, everything we take for granted today vanishes for future generations.  Why? Short answer: hyper-population growth! 

Each year, quietly and without fanfare, America adds, net gain, 3.1 to 3.4 million people.  In the past 40 years, we added 100 million people mostly through immigration since the American female averages 2.03 children or replacement only.  According to Fogel/Martin March 2006 “U.S. Population Projections”, we expect to add 100 million more people by 2035.  What does that mean to average citizens?

For starters, it explodes our current 306 million population to well over 400 million.  It multiplies by 100 million people our gridlocked traffic, air pollution, water and energy usage.

Within cities like Los Angeles, Houston and Denver, rush hour traffic causes  hundreds of accidents daily, five days a week as a normal part of their overloaded highways. Ozone alerts and air pollution keep everyone breathing highly polluted air known as the ‘Brown Cloud’ over those cities.  Can you imagine how much more toxic that cloud might be with two to three million more people living in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and New York? 

What about ‘quality of life’?  That latest word in the American lexicon addresses our loss of wild places, and peace and quiet needed for our spiritual well being.  

My old friend John Muir said, “Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets--all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of.  I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.  If the death exhalations of that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague.  All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.”

When it comes to nature, how will America’s wildlife fare as we build homes and communities in their habitats?  How will they maintain their lives?  Don’t fool yourself that habitat is of no consequence to a global ecosystem. Right now, according to The National Academy of Sciences, in America, we lose 2,500 plants and animals to extinction every decade from habitat encroachment by humans.   That begs the question: what moral or ethical right do we possess as cognitive humans to cause so much destruction of our fellow creatures on this planet home?

What happens when we compact ourselves like rats in cities across America?  What kind of Hobson’s Choice will we encounter when we add that extra five million human beings?  What about our water supplies that already force us into ever increasing consequences?

On the energy front, how will we survive the coming Peak Oil dilemmas and lack of natural gas?  We experienced rolling blackouts in California and Colorado three years ago.  Oil prices in Europe run $9.00 a gallon while we freaked out with $4.10 a gallon this summer.  What happens when oil prices in the U.S. climb to $9.00 a gallon?--Which they will!

No leaders and few folks make any plans for what we face.  But, as you understand, everything you hear and read applauds unending growth.  Growth cannot solve the problem; ‘growth’ is the problem!  It remains an anachronistic paradigm and totally unworkable. 

As we race pell-mell toward our destiny, what responsibilities do we owe future Americans?  What can they expect from our actions today?  What will they encounter as we make poor choices?  What might constitute positive choices?

As CU’s famous demographer Dr. Albert Bartlett said, “Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases of population, locally, nationally, or globally.” 

I cannot! Can you?  Therefore, if none exist, let’s boldly and intelligently pursue a new path for America. Let’s move toward ‘steady state economics’ and a stable and sustainable population.

Every restaurant, pool and movie house observes a limited seating capacity.  Every airplane must carry the number of passengers within its capacity—and not one single person over its limit.

Therefore, America carries a definite limit to the number of people that it can water, feed and house within the parameters of the land.  By following such a 21st century vision and strategic plan, we assure future generations a viable and sustainable living experience in America. 

Let’s make America the first nation to institute an “American Sustainable Population Policy”; “American Carrying Capacity Policy”; “American Water Usage Policy” and “American Environmental Impact Policy.”

While emotional and political arguments whirl about such a vision, common sense and practicality must prevail.  In the end, if we fail to plan, we plan to fail.  Ultimately, nature becomes the population arbiter.  As Henry Kendell said, “We can bring about population stability gracefully or nature will do it brutally.”

American citizens carry a great opportunity and responsibility on their shoulders in 2008 and the coming years.  Will they take it or rebuke it?

I encourage each citizen to engage.  Everything you do, counts!  Everything you don’t do, counts even more.

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Frosty Wooldridge, a Colorado math/science teacher, 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 Colorado/America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges.  He has appeared on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX and 200 radio shows.  He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com

To take action: www.numbersusa.com ; www.thesocialcontract.com  ; www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ;www.patriotunion.org ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ;

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Become a member of "Frosty's Press Agent Corps" whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America's overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration.  Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.

Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en

Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.

Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.

 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 listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

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:

 Go to:  www.frostywooldridge.com  and click on "Audio/Video" tab

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