IPFS Frosty Wooldridge

CONNECTING THE DOTS

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Part 1--IMMIGRATION: AN EXAMINATION OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS

Part 1: What we all face

Each week, hundreds of emails stream into my inbox concerning columns I have written addressing immigration and overpopulation.  Most thank me, others condemn me and still others curse me.  A few make fun of my name “Frosty” as if their derision can subvert my purpose.

I am an educator.  I make fun of no man.  I know everyone paddles his or her canoe through life in the best way possible. We each seek love, purpose and happiness. We love our families and friends.  We take part in our communities in every hamlet in the world.

Even with all the war and unrest in many parts of the planet, we remain within the family of humanity.  We all possess a stake in the future of our planet.  We all laugh, love and cry.  True, some of us practice brutality and many of our cultures prove derisive toward women.  Humanity, in many ways, must be the cruelest animal on the planet, but pretends to be the most important.

I have said that humans are God’s highest expression and worst mistake. If you look around at the mess we’ve created in this world in the last 100 years, I don’t see how you could argue.  We created 72,000 chemicals now contaminating the planet, horrific and never ending wars that kill, maim and destroy lives by the millions, accelerating human misery on a scale unheard of 100 years ago, we cause the extinction of 100 species daily, climate destabilization and the list grows.

Often I hear from Sub-Commandante Pedro, a Mexican National, MeCHA Brown Berets Infiltration Brigades, LA, Alta, CA Aztlan.  He tells me how Americans have lost their country because they are, “Too fat, lazy and stupid to defend their failed nation…the Bronze Man will return this land to its rightful owners by making more babies than stupid gringos.”

Amazingly enough, he refers to black Americans in ways that would leave the mainstream press aghast. Additionally, if his brand of racism takes over, black Americans can assume even worse treatment and extrication from any areas dominated by the New Mexico in America.

As I categorically state weekly, immigration and population find themselves shackled to together like Paul Newman as “Cool Hand Luke” on the chain gang being watched by the man wearing those mirror glasses known as the ‘man with no eyes’.   Ultimately, like Newman, “What we have here is a failure to communicate,” thus no way to escape our destiny.

It becomes unsettling to me to know what lies ahead, having seen it in my world travels, but possessing no power to change it. Ironically, hundreds of readers write diatribes against my work on sites across the nation.

On the pro-immigration side, those advocates don’t understand their own dilemma or how many makes too many?  They don’t understand that Mexico City, with 24 million people, grinds toward terrible water shortages and staggering environmental problems.  They don’t understand the sheer human overload creating horrific human misfortune.

As Dr. Garrett Hardin said, “By any reasonable standards, the most rapidly growing populations on earth today are the most miserable.”

While the citizens of those countries live in the squalor of their own numbers and collide with reality, Americans and other first world countries do not possess a clue as to the raging battle for life going on with one-third of humanity. That’s two billion people folks!  It’s as if 18 million people don’t die from starvation annually—but the fact is, they do!

On the anti-illegal migration side, only a few people understand the devastating consequences of unending immigration.  Many fail to understand that legal immigration proves worse than illegal—because it methodically added 100 million to this country in the last 40 years.  Another 100 will manifest within 26 years.

You would think that one look at the crumbling of California, which adds 1,700 people, virtually all immigrants streaming into America from overloaded countries, net gain, daily would raise somebody’s eyebrows.  Not even a blink by the mainstream press!

Dr. Garrett Hardin wrote about a phenomenon that we all face.  “We may well call it "the tragedy of the commons," using the word "tragedy" as the philosopher Whitehead used it "The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things." He then goes on to say, "This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness."

“The tragedy of the commons develops in this way,” Hardin said. “Picture a pasture open to all. It is to be expected that each herdsman will try to keep as many cattle as possible on the commons. Such an arrangement may work reasonably satisfactorily for centuries because tribal wars, poaching, and disease keep the numbers of both man and beast well below the carrying capacity of the land. Finally, however, comes the day of reckoning, that is, the day when the long-desired goal of social stability becomes a reality. At this point, the inherent logic of the commons remorselessly generates tragedy.

“As a rational being, each herdsman seeks to maximize his gain. Explicitly, or implicitly, more or less consciously, he asks "What is the utility to me of adding one more animal to my herd?" This utility has one negative and one positive component.”

1) The positive component is the function of the increment of one animal. Since the herdsman receives all the proceeds from the sale of the additional animal, the positive utility is nearly +1.

2) The negative component is a function of the additional overgrazing created by one more animal. Since, however, the effects of overgrazing are shared by all the herdsmen, the negative utility for any particular decision-making herdsman is only a fraction of -1.

“Adding together the component partial utilities, the rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another, and another!  But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit - in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”

If you look at America today or any massively overpopulated country like China, India, Great Britain, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc., you can see the quickening of the ‘tragedy of the commons’.  You will also see millions in denial of their spiraling dilemma.

As published in my recent book, “America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans,” in our oceans, 100 million sharks suffer death at the hands of humans annually.  Humans rape the oceans with drift nets and chemicals.

“The oceans of the world continue to suffer from the survival of the philosophy of the commons,” Hardin said. “Maritime nations still respond automatically to the shibboleth of the "freedom of the seas." Professing to believe in the "inexhaustible resources of the oceans," they bring species after species of fish and whales closer to extinction.

“The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit. The values that visitors seek in the park are steadily eroded. Plainly, we must soon cease to treat the parks as a commons or they will be of no value to anyone.”

If we add another 100 million people, our parks cannot withstand the sheer numbers, but our cities will prove even worse.

As you can see, we cannot continue on this path of the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ much longer.  How long is ‘much longer’?  We will explore that in Part 2: Pollution and breeding.

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To take action:  First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!

 

Second, join www.thesocialcontract.com for up to date information via the Social Contract Quarterly. Exceptional publication to keep you informed.

 

www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ; www.capsweb.org ;  www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; LimitsToGrowth.org

 

Visit this site for a rendition of Colorado Governor Lamm’s speech: “How to Destroy America”

http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm

Must see DVD:  “Blind Spot”

This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning.

 

In Canada: Tim Murray,

Director Immigration Watch Canadawww.immigrationwatch.org

Vice President Biodiversity First http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com/index.htm

Blog http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com  


Watch the DVD movie: “Blind Spot”—Exceptional movie with top scientists candidly discussion what we face as a civilization if we continue on our hyper-population growth path. www.blindspotdoc.com

Please visit Annie Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com for a compelling and highly interesting 20 minute video concerning our high consumption, highly wasteful and unsustainable society.  She educates and provides avenues for you to make a difference.

Visit this web site by Chris Martenson: http://www.chrismartenson.com/environmental_data 

In Colorado: visit www.soprisfoundation.org for information how you can network with like-minded folks to create a more sustainable future for Colorado and other states. 

 

View CNN’s “Planet in Peril” with Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling:

 

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/

Ghost of Thomas Paine—compelling video of common sense

http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296

 

 

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:  D.C.:  (202)224-2854 comment@whitehouse.gov

Books to read:  “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler

                         “Peak Everything” by Richard Heinberg

                         “Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant

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.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 Comments in Response to

Comment by TheRockster
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Frosty, here's the problem: present day humans are descended from those humans who survived in the past long enough to breed. This has produced a population that contains around 5% natural leaders of hunter-gatherer groups. Another word for these natural leaders is "psychopath." Another large portion of the human population consists of natural followers, sometimes called "sheeple." These leaders and followers in the modern world, no longer in hunter-gatherer groups, but in national populations, with modern technology and modern military capability, produce all of the symptoms you describe. Unless and until we wise up to this situation and find solutions for the problems it creates, we will continue to see the continued progress toward a Hell on Earth. The geniuses who wrote the Constitution tried to prevent this, but have obviously failed.


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