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Frosty Wooldridge
More About: EnvironmentSERIOUS REALITIES FACING OUR CIVILIZATION IN 21ST CENTURY
"The raging monster upon the land is
population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical
construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not
due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is
sophistic.” Harvard scholar and biologist E.O. Wilson
"The cheap oil age created an
artificial bubble of plentitude for a period not much longer than a human
lifetime....so I hazard to assert that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world
reserves move toward depletion, we will be left with an enormous
population...that the ecology of the earth will not support. The journey back
toward non-oil population homeostasis will not be pretty. We will
discover the hard way that population hyper growth was simply a side-effect of
the oil age. It was a condition, not a problem with a solution. That is
what happened and we are stuck with it." James Howard Kunstler
“We must alert and organize the world's people to pressure world
leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our
environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of
irreplaceable resources. Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie every
environmental problem we face today.” Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now
to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this century, will the
“civil” part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way
that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we
enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what
keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our
economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the
price has to be paid.” Walter Youngquist
“The U.S. will set a record in the rate of rise—and fall of an
empire. Between wide open borders and fall of the dollar and growing
population against a declining resource base, the US will be defeated from
within. Mobs will rule the streets in the nation that is now the third largest
in the world and unable to support its population except by taking resources
from other countries.” Arnold Toynbee
“A simple look at the upward path of global greenhouse emissions
indicates we will continue to squeeze the trigger on the gun we have put to our
own head.” Eugene Linden, The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the
Destruction of Civilization
“The ship is already starting to spin out of control. We may
soon lose all chance of grabbing the wheel. Humanity faces a genuinely new
situation. It is not an environmental crisis in the accepted sense. It is
a crisis for the entire life-support system for our civilization and our
species.” Fred Pearce, The Last Generation: How Nature Will take Her
Revenge for Climate Change
“At this point, it’s almost certainly too late to manage a
transition to sustainability on a global or national scale, even if the
political will to attempt it existed, which it clearly does not. Our
civilization is in the early stages of the same curve of decline and fall as so
many others have followed before it. What likely lies in wait for us is a
long, uneven decline into a new Dark Age from which, centuries from now,
the civilizations of the future will gradually emerge.”
“We are strong and adaptable animals and can certainly make a new
life on the hotter Earth, but there will only be a fraction of inhabitable land
left. Soon we face the appalling question of who m can we let aboard the
lifeboats? And who must we reject? There will be great clamor from
climate refugees seeking a safe haven in those few parts where the climate is
tolerable and food available. We will need a new set of rules for limiting the
population in climate oases.” James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia:
A final Warning
“Imagine we live on a planet. Not our cozy, taken for granted
planet, but a planet, a real one, with melting poles and dying forests and a
heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by sdtorms, scorched by heat.
And inhospitable place. It needs a new name, Eaarth.” Bill
McKibben, Eaarth: Making a life on a Tough new Planet
“If present growth trends in population, industrialization,
pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the
limits to growth will be reached sometime in the next 100 years.” The
Club of Rome 1972
“The power of population is so superior to the power of earth to
produce subsistence to humanity that premature death must in some shape or
other visit the human race.” Thomas Malthus 1798
“Imagine a country which employs the principles of personal
responsibility, freedom and accountability for future generations.
Everything you do-counts! If you do nothing, that counts likewise. When
you read sobering information, do you want to give up or fall apart? Or, do you
want to engage like Thomas
Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George and Martha
Washington, John and Abigail
Adams, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Oprah, Barbara Jordan, John Muir and other
Americans. You represent the Jefferson’s, Oprah’s and Dr. King’s of the 21st
century. Consider it your honor and privilege to become a part of the
solutions. Engage the present to change the future! Become an agent of
the change you wish to see.” FW
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In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration,
Poverty, and Gum balls”, Roy Beck,
director of www.numbersusa.ORG,
graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes
to see for yourself:
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:
This is the best website to start: www.numbersusa.com ; watch Roy Beck’s
“Immigration by the Numbers” at 14 minutes. Bi-partisan and very effective.
Become a faxer of pre-written letters to your reps to make positive
change.
Also: 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
andPublicPopForum@yahoogroups.com;
in Great Britain www.optimumpopulation.org
; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.
Must see DVD: "Blind Spot" 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-
Must see and funny: www.growthbusters.org
; www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
Dave Gardner's Polar Bear in Bedroom:
Dave Gardner's Polar Bear in Bedroom:
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:
Tomorrow's Americaproject on www.youtube.com/contemporarylearning.
Producer: GEORGE A. COLBURNwww.tomorrowsamerica.com
DC: 202-258-4887
Email: gac@starbrightmc.com
Link to www.tomorrowsamerica.com
for more discussions on America's predicament.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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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
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