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Part 3--AN EXAMINATION OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS: FREEDOM TO BREED

Part 3: Freedom to breed

As I reported in an earlier column, 46 million women abort their babies annually worldwide.  In the U.S., the number falls to 1.2 million annually. Why a much less number?  American females practice birth control, so much so, they average 2.03 children per woman. 

You may debate the morality or immorality of 46 million abortions, but if you live in America, you may not possess a clue as to the circumstances of their choices. It’s easy to ride the high moral ground when you’re not living in the filthy cesspool of misery inhabited by several billion humans on planet earth. 

How did they get to their predicament? You might call it a result of the ‘freedom to breed’.   If not for the 46 million abortions annually at the hands of humans, Mother Nature kills humanity off at a rate of 18 million via starvation or related diseases. 

Again, Dr. Garrett Hardin, author of “The Tragedy of the Commons”, www.thesocialcontract.com Fall 2001, pages 26-35, said, “The tragedy of the commons is involved in population problems in another way. In a world governed solely by the principle of "dog eat dog" - if indeed there ever was such a world - how many children a family had would not be a matter of public concern. Parents that bred too exuberantly would leave fewer descendants, not more, because they would be unable to care adequately for their children.

“If each human family were dependent only on its own resources; if the children of improvident parents starved to death; if, thus, over-breeding brought its own "punishment" to the germ line - then there would be no public interest in controlling the breeding of families. But our society is deeply committed to the welfare state, and hence is confronted with another aspect of the tragedy of the commons.

For example, according to the Edwin Rubenstein report, “Illegal and legal immigration cost U.S. taxpayers $346 billion annually across 15 federal agencies.”  That includes education, medication, food and incarceration.

“In a welfare state, how shall we deal with the family, the religion, the race, or the class that adopts over-breeding as a policy to secure its own aggrandizement? To couple the concept of freedom to breed with the belief that everyone born has an equal right to the commons is to lock the world into a tragic course of action.  Unfortunately this is just the course of action that is being pursued by the United Nations. In late 1967, some 30 nations agreed to the following:

“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.”

Conscience Is Self-Eliminating

Hardin said, “It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. Charles Galton Darwin made this point when he spoke on the centennial of the publication of his grandfather's great book. The argument is straightforward and Darwinian.

“People vary. Confronted with appeals to limited breeding, some people will undoubtedly respond to the plea more than others. Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences. The difference will be accentuated, generation by generation.

“In C. G. Darwin's words "It may well be that it would take hundreds of generations for the progenitive instinct to develop in this way, but if it should do so, nature would have taken her revenge, and the variety Homo contracipiens would become extinct and would be replaced by the variety Homo progenitivus."

Hardin said, "Those who have more children will produce a larger fraction of the next generation than those with more susceptible consciences. The difference will be accentuated, generation by generation." The argument assumes that conscience or the desire for children is hereditary - but hereditary only in the most general formal sense. The result will be the same whether the attitude is transmitted through germ cells or exosomatically, to use A. J. Lotka's term.”

Pathogenic Effects of Conscience

“The long-term effects of conscience should be enough to condemn it,” Hardin said. “But serious short-term disadvantages exist as well. If we ask a man who is exploiting a commons to desist "in the name of conscience," what are we saying to him? What does he hear? - not only at the moment but also in the wee hours of the night when, half asleep, he remembers not merely the words we used but also the nonverbal communication cues we gave him unawares?

“To conjure up a conscience in others is tempting to anyone who wishes to extend his control beyond the legal limits. Leaders at the highest level succumb to this temptation. Has any President during the past generation failed to call on labor unions to moderate voluntarily their demands for higher wages, or to steel companies to honor voluntary guidelines on prices? I can recall none.

 “For centuries it was assumed without proof that guilt was a valuable, perhaps even an indispensable, ingredient of civilized life. Now, in this post-Freudian world, we doubt it.

At the present moment, Mexico, Central and South American citizens converge into America at breakneck speeds from over-breeding within their own societies.  Mexico boasts 28 million Mexicans living within the United States. 

Today, Pakistan expects to double its population from 80 million to 160 million by mid century.  Clearly they exceed the Commons.  China adds eight million annually.  India adds 12 million annually.  Where do they flee?

As witnessed in this film, Muslims reached from five to nine million in the USA since 1970.  They added 52 million to Europe within 40 years.  They expect to be the dominant ethnic group in Europe by mid century.  Clearly they overwhelm the commons.  For a look at the “Tragedy of the Commons” consider this eight minute movie:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU

We will discover that ethnic groups will continue multiplying their numbers for a greater ‘share’ of the commons, which translates to short term power. India illustrates that dilemma in that its many ethnic groups try to out birth one another for more political power.  Unfortunately, their misery and environmental damage accelerate with their added 12 million annually.

As the “Tragedy of the Commons” quickens, no one wins and everyone loses no matter what their race, creed or color.

Part 4: End result of the Tragedy of the Commons

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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. It’s a brilliant educational movie!

 

In Canada: Tim Murray,

Director Immigration Watch Canada www.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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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