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CONNECTING THE DOTS
Frosty Wooldridge
More About: EnvironmentFutility of Giving Pakistan Aid: Enormous Population Cannot Be Saved
Back in the 1960s, college kids gave up a Sunday meal to send food to Bangladesh. Result: they grew from 80 million to a whopping 157 million people. So what’s the problem? Bangladeshis live in a flood plain the size of Wisconsin. Human overpopulation dictates millions of miserable, hopeless and terrible lives. Living conditions: beyond sickening!
Today, nearby Pakistan suffers an enormous population: Canadian writer Madeline Weld wrote, "The population was 60 million when I was there in the 1960s, 180 million now and headed for 335 million by 2050. Two-thirds of the country is less than 30 years old, fewer than 30 million of 70 million kids between 5 and 19 in school, and a female illiteracy rate of 60% (male 32%), desired family size 4.1, 22% of married women use birth control and only half of the non-users would like to use it in the future."
In other words, Pakistan cannot be saved whether today or in the future. Islam does not allow birth control. Therefore, Darwin’s thesis becomes Pakistan’s final solution—either now or in the future with greater human die-off when they hit 335 million.
SHOULD FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES SEND AID TO PAKISTAN?
“Would you give money to a drunken panhandler or a drug addict?” said Canadian
writer Tim Murray. “Would you continue to feed a man who has sired six kids
despite having no means to support them? Is open-ended charity a virtue---or a
vice?
“If your object is to actually solve the problem of poverty, then you
must focus on the consequences of your charity. But if your object is to
perpetuate and worsen the problem and inflict misery and hunger upon the next
generation in even greater proportions, then by all means, wear a blindfold and
keep on giving. Keep giving to Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Haiti
and Central Africa.
“Follow Sir Bob Geldoff's example and feed a young
generation of potential people-breeders in the mid 1980s and then see Ethiopia
double its population in 25 years with three times as many people stalked by
hunger now as then. After all, this is really about White Guilt and salving a
Christian conscience, isn't it? It is not about addressing root causes but
feeling good about yourself. If you may not get a knighthood out of it, but
maybe you'll collect enough brownie points with the Big Guy in the Sky. That
way, you can sit back into your four bedroom home with its two car garage
and feel that you have paid your dues. Congratulations, you are a “Good Person.”
You are off the hook.
“Moral of the story? I can live a middle class lifestyle with all of its
entitlements- the two kids, the Mexican vacations, the cottage in the
country--as long as I have paid my indulgence and been granted dispensation for
my charitable donations and cosmetic green living habits, habits that don't
represent any real sacrifice or challenge to my middle class station. Lenin
said it more than a century ago.
“Philanthropy is just a cheap ticket to heavenly bliss for the bourgeoisie, a class that will never threaten to undermine its privilege with fundamental structural change to society. Bill Gates has challenged the world's billionaires to match his ambition and donate half their wealth to charity. A bold and magnanimous gesture to be sure. Now, let's see him challenge billionaires to give up the system of economic growth that allowed them to generate that wealth at the cost of our life support system and the well-being of so many who cling to it. Don't hold your breath. Charity is a small premium to pay to keep us in the cockpit. So let's keep our guilt-trip alive. Ready? Now repeat after me:
"We're white and we're guilty. We're the irresponsible consumers on
a oil-fueled binge who have imposed climate change on the hapless billions who
must survive on $2 a day. We're the junior partners of global corporations who
have fattened our portfolios with the dividends and profits made from their despoliation
of the developing world. One quarter of the world's natural capital has been
liquidated with little recompense to those who live at the scene of the crime.
Most of the wealth has flowed north. Yep, we're guilty as hell."
Alternatively, "Here in Canada,
where charity is bred in our bone, we must set those optics aside, give as best
we can, and therefore provide the Taliban and al-Qaida no room to
take credit."
“But throwing money at the symptoms of overpopulation---mass starvation and
displacement---will not cure it but promote it. And neither will opening our
borders to what can only be a fraction of those affected. There is not a
shortage of food, water and housing but as Garrett Hardin would say, a “longage”
of people. Few ever ask, "Why have so many people chosen to live on a
flood plain?" And even fewer people ask, "Why is there no room to
live elsewhere?". If making foreign aid conditional on family planning is
playing God, is not growing misery by unconditional aid not also playing
God---but on a much more grandiose and egregious scale?
“Overpopulation is one problem that where, ultimately, the ball is in their court as well as ours.
There is enough guilt and irresponsibility to go around, and it is high time
that those who are breeding themselves into an even deeper hole shared a slice
of it. Habitat destruction, deforestation, poaching, pollution from cook-stoves
and the reckless fecundity that drives much of it--- is not all down to
us and our corporate proxies. In its quest for a subsistence, humanity's bottom
billion has accounted for much environmental damage, even enough perhaps to
offset our sins of emission. If they are to free themselves of this
vicious downward cycle, it is imperative that they take charge of their
numbers----and it is imperative that they not be encouraged to avoid doing so.
“As they say in the Self-Help business, to be helped, you must first be willing
to help yourself. Birth control begins at home. Need help in that? Then my
wallet's open.”
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If any of us, no matter what our race, creed or color might be, refuse to engage our U.S. Congress as we have not for 30 years as to the population/immigration equation—our children will find themselves living in a terribly degraded America where the American Dream will be described by the history books as a ‘fleeting fantasy’ from the era of 1950 to 2010.
These are several of the top organizations where you can take collective action to change the course of American history as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Take collective action at www.numbersusa.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.capsweb.org ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; www.populationconnection.org ; www.quinacrine.com ; www.familyplanning.org/ , www.skil.org ; www.growthbusters.com ; www.populationpress.org ; www.thinkpopulation.org ; www.carryingcapacity.org ; www.balance.org ; www.controlgrowth.org ; in Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; in Australia www.population.org.au and PublicPopForum@yahoogroups.com ; in Great Britain www.optimumpopulation.org ; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.
Must see DVD: “Blind Spot” http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/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! www.blindspotdoc.com
Must see: Rapid Population Decline, seven minute video by Dr. Jack Alpert-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0
Must
see and funny: www.growthbusters.org ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
Dave Gardner’s Polar Bear in Bedroom: http://growthbusters.org/2010/03/save-the-polar-bear-in-your-bedroom ; Dave Gardner,
President, Citizen-Powered Media ; Producing the Documentary, GROWTH BUSTERS; presents Hooked on Growth: Our
Misguided Quest for Prosperity, Join the cause at www.growthbusters.org
;760 Wycliffe Drive, Colorado Springs, CO
80906 USA; +1 719-576-5565
Check out this link with Wooldridge on bicycle and Lester Brown and panel discussion:
http://www.upnorthmedia.org/watchupnorthtv.asp?SDBFid=1631
Tomorrow's America project on www.youtube.com/contemporarylearning.
Producer: GEORGE A. COLBURN www.tomorrowsamerica.com
DC: 202-258-4887
Email: gac@starbrightmc.com
Link to www.tomorrowsamerica.com for more discussions on America’s predicament.
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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 He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715