As of 2012, the human race continues its demographic explosion
by adding 1 billion humans to the planet, net gain, (over and above deaths)
every 12 years. Projections show the human race reaching 9 billion as a low and
10.1 billion as a high by 2050. (U.N. Population projections) The United States projects an added 138
million to reach 438 million by 2050 and 625 million by 2090. (Source: www.PewHispanic.org
and www.NumbersUSA.org )
We might be headed toward those numbers, but we will never
get there with any semblance of human dignity or environmental stability. Few humans comprehend, understand or realize
the accelerating consequences to humanity and this planet by relentless human
population growth. Population growth
causes environmental degradation, millions of human deaths via starvation as
well as endless human misery, energy depletion, water scarcity and loss of
quality of life for plants, animals and humans.
“The power of population is
so superior to the power of earth to produce subsistence (food) to humanity
that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” Thomas
Malthus 1798
Thomas Malthus wrote: An Essay on Principle of
Population. In it, he said the
power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to
produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a
geometrical ratio. Subsistence (food) increases only in an arithmetical ratio. “A slight acquaintance with numbers will show
the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. By the law of our
nature which makes food necessary to the life of man the effects of these two
unequal powers must be kept equal.” In
other words, human fecundity will always outstrip the planet’s ability to feed
endlessly growing numbers. Ultimately, a
crash of the human herd must and will happen.
While today’s technology kicks the can down the
road, humans continue to add 1 billion of their numbers every 12 years. They won’t be able to do that much
longer. Population expert David M. Delaney
said that Malthus was an optimist because he didn’t understand “overshoot” or
humans’ ability to grow at fantastic rates of speed to overwhelm food resources—so
they crash suddenly.
Delaney said, “Malthus
thought that population would approach a sustainable limit, then hover there,
with many people living in poverty and misery. He did not imagine overshoot and
sudden collapse. He did not understand that technology was converting
mineral concentrations and much of the biosphere into windfall stocks that
would stimulate rapid population growth. Now, two hundred years after Malthus,
humans have multiplied their numbers far beyond any sustainable limit, and the
end of the windfall stocks is in sight.”
Today, according the World Health Organization, (Source:
www.who.org) , 30,000 children die of starvation
and starvation related diseases daily.
That equals 10 million each year. Another 8 million adults die of
starvation annually. That equals 18
millions succumbing to Malthusian reality.
Even in the United States of America, 37 million Americans
must be fed through food banks or face starvation. One in eight Americans
receives food from food banks regularly. (Source:
www.feedingAmerica.org)
Yet, myopic Americans love to live in denial. They slop their pizza-laden bellies over
their beltlines with an arrogance that Malthus won’t happen to them or their
children.
In 1965, Dr. Paul Ehrlich wrote The Population Bomb to bring the human overpopulation equation to
the surface. The Pope with his dominant
paradigm and power—crushed Galileo in 1600 when Galileo stated that the Earth
revolved around the sun and not the other way around. Today, the dominant powers in America and
around the world crushed Ehrlich’s scientific work.
Americans chortled, “Technology will always save us like the
Green Revolution.”
However, the green revolution was instigated as a result of
the efforts of
Norman Borlaug,
who,
while accepting the Nobel peace prize in 1970, said: "The
green revolution has won a temporary success in man's war against hunger and
deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the
revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three
decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed;
otherwise the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only."
Green Revolution
very, very temporary
Every social, environmental, energy, water and resource
problem facing America today as well as the rest of the world stems from human
overpopulation. You cannot get around
it, slide by it, ignore it or flippantly change the subject.
At some point, Americans of all races, creeds and colors
will be forced to come to terms with their own overpopulated numbers. We cannot sustain our civilization as we
import 7 of 10 barrels of oil daily. Our
water resources deplete as our population explodes beyond carrying
capacity. We exceed “overshoot” today,
but the consequences will play out tomorrow in ever harsher terms.
Engage yourself for the future of your civilization and for
your children.
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:
“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck
This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of
unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future
generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”
www.NumbersUSA.org
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