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Frosty Wooldridge
More About: Politics: General ActivismThomas Malthus foretold humanity’s gravest plight with clarity
“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
Each year, across the planet, an estimated 10 million children die of
starvation and starvation related diseases. Additionally, eight million
adults die of starvation and malnutrition. Over two million human beings
cannot secure a clean glass of drinking water daily. At least two billion
humans live in lethal poverty, squalor and misery. (Source:
www.worldhealthorganization.com)
Yet, without so much as a blink, yawn or sigh—the human race adds another 80
million people to the planet annually—without pause, without thought, without
reason.
Mathis Wackernagel, President Global Footprint Network, said, “Today,
humanity uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets to provide the resources we use and
to absorb our emissions. The majority of countries and states operate their
economies without tracking the ecological resources they use against what they
actually have. It is like flying a plane without a fuel gauge,
and it affects everything from what you pay at the grocery store to the type of
world you and your children will live in.”
On the European front, mass immigration threatens to destabilize the United
Kingdom with a projected population increase of 11 million within two decades.
Much the same occurs in Australia, America and Canada—otherwise maintaining
stable populations.
What causes the problem? Answer: third world fecundity rates add 1
billion people every 12 years. America expects an added 100 million by
2035 driven by immigration. It faces irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems.While most ‘experts’ denigrate "Malthus, the false prophet",
Thomas Malthus' predictions manifest more today than in his own time.
As population rises, carrying capacity drops. What is “carrying
capacity”? For a quick rendition, it means, “The amount resources on a
given piece of land to allow long term sustainable human, plant and animal
life.”
If animals or humans exceed “carrying capacity” of any given land mass, they
crash in numbers by various means, i.e., famine, war, pestilence and disease.
For the 7.1 billion humans in the 21st century, oil resources
will define that capacity quotient. Noted Geologist Walter Youngquist
said, “This is going to be an interesting decade, for the perfect storm is
brewing—energy, immigration and oil imports. China grows in direct
confrontation for remaining oil. I think the USA is on a big, slippery
downhill slope. Will the thin veneer of civilization survive?” To see how
fast we grow, visit www.populationmedia.com
Youngquist continued, “Beyond oil, population is the number one problem of
the 21st century, for when oil is gone as we know and use it
today—and it WILL be gone—population will still be here.”
The world uses 84 million barrels daily. That’s 42 gallons to a
drum! By mid-century, use will top 120-140 million barrels per day.
Oil will run out because of limited reserves in the ground. As
a shocking reality check: according to James Howard Kunstler, The Long
Emergency, by 2030, China expects to burn 98 million barrels EVERY
day. They add 27,000 new cars to their highways weekly according to NBC’s
anchor Brian Williams.
Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado said, “Present population
growth rate is putting our children at risk. They will experience holes
in the ozone causing serious biological effects on plants and humans.
World ocean fisheries are collapsing from endless plundering. Two thirds
of the world’s people will suffer from water shortages by 2025. It is not
possible to sustain population growth or growth in rates of consumption of
resources.”
Where is the worst overpopulation problem on the planet according to Dr.
Bartlett? “It’s right here in the United States!”
Dr. Bartlett said, “Can you think of any problem, on any scale, from
microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way,
aided, assisted, or advanced, by having continued population growth—at the
local level, the state level, the national level, or globally?”
How many people in the United States constitute enough? How far down
the rabbit hole do we want to dig ourselves? At what point is enough—too
much? If we shut down the borders today with zero immigration, while
enjoying our sustainable 2.03 fertility level of American women on average, we
would still grow via “population momentum” by an added 40 million.
We paint ourselves into a perilous corner. Once the numbers manifest, our
society will suffer irreversible consequences with unsolvable problems.
One visit to Los Angeles will show you they suffer toxic air, dwindling safe
drinking water, gridlock to the point of insanity, water shortages, endless
highways and housing development. Consider San Francisco, Atlanta,
Chicago, New York, Detroit, Denver and all other large cities grow beyond the
bounds of reason!
Sustainable growth, slow growth, managed growth, smart growth and all other
kinds of growth prove oxymoronic. Sustainable growth cannot be
sustained. Why? All growth exceeds carrying capacity at some point.
In other words, the bubble bursts, the dam breaks, the glass spills, the
balloon pops and the red-lined engine blows up.
“Population growth is given as a cause of the problems identified, but
eliminating the cause is not mentioned as a solution,” Bartlett said. “We are prescribing
aspirin for cancer.”
At the current rate of growth driven by immigration, America will double its
population near the end of the 21st century—from 300,000,000 to
625,000,000. As long as the underlying cause of a problem is not dealt
with, we, and our leaders, as a nation, perpetuate a falsehood which Mark Twain
called ‘silent-assertion’: “Almost all lies are acts,” he said. “I
am speaking of the lie of ‘silent-assertion’. It would not be possible
for a humane and intelligent person to invent a rational excuse for slavery;
yet you will remember that in the early days of emancipation in the North,
agitators got small help from anyone.
They could not break the universal
stillness that reigned from the pulpit and press all the way down to the bottom
of society--the clammy stillness created and maintained by the lie of
silent-assertion that there wasn’t anything going on in which intelligent
people were interested.
“The conspiracy of the silent-assertion lie is hard at work always and
everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity (unlimited growth) or
sham (unlimited immigration), never in the interest of the respectable (average
citizens). It is the most timid and shabby of all lies. The
silent-assertion is that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and
women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop.”
‘Silent-assertion’ worked until it brought China, India and Bangladesh to
their knees with sheer misery of numbers. How do I know? I’ve spent
a lot of time in Asia and other overpopulated regions. China, even with
enforced one child per family, grows by 8 million annually. India, with 1.21
billion, adds even more yearly. Bangladesh suffers 157 million people in
a landmass the size of Ohio. Do you see anyone racing to immigrate to
those havens of human overload?
Do we as a nation, want millions upon millions of added people from
countries already exceeding their “carrying capacity”? Legal immigration proves
as dangerous as illegal. To think otherwise will allow that
‘silent-assertion’ to create another China or India in America. Just
imagine Ohio with 157 million people and all the rest of the United States with
THAT kind of population density!
Albert Einstein said, “The problems in the world today are so enormous they
cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them.”
We are no longer living in the 20th century America with only 75
million people riding horses or trains. We’re in the 21st
century with cars and jets and 315 million people added to the 7.1 billion on
the planet—creating horrific environmental consequences. Again, we had to
change our ‘silent-assertion’ about slavery and we MUST change our
‘silent-assertion’ about population growth and economic growth. If we
continue steaming full speed ahead like the captain of the Titanic, our
children will be on board when we hit the peak oil, global warming, ozone
holes, collapsing species, air pollution and other commensurate problems
related to the overpopulation “iceberg.” Most died on the Titanic because
there weren’t enough life boats.
Maybe some of us choose to maintain our ‘silent-assertion’ in the face of
growing consequences, but how can any parent or grandparent be that callous to
their children? That gopher hole runs deep!
Dr. William Rees,ecological economist and former director of the University
of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in a blog June
12, 2012 , “The Use and Misuse of the Concept of Sustainability.” “The
concepts of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘sustainability’ continue to be
subverted, distorted and otherwise misused in the ongoing political debates
concerning global change and economic development. Society continues to be in
deep denial of fundamental facts pertaining to contemporary biophysical
reality”.
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organization for the most effective collective action you can take: www.CapsWeb.org ; www.NumbersUSA.org ; www.TheSocialContract.com ; www.Fairus.org
Join me, Frosty
Wooldridge, with Dave Chaffin, host of the Morning Zone at 650 AM, www.KGAB.com, Cheyenne, Wyoming every Monday 7:00
a.m. to 8:00 a.m., as we discuss my latest commentaries on www.NewsWithViews.com about issues facing America. You may stream the show on
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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:
“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 few words, “Mind boggling!” www.NumbersUSA.org
This is the best website to start: www.numbersusa.org ; 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.
Visit www.TheSocialContract.com
for the best information on what we face as a civilization as to
overpopulation, energy, immigration and much more.
Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org
; in Australia www.population.org.au
andPublicPopForum@yahoogroups.com;
in Great Britain www.populationmatters.org
; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com. In Florida, www.flimen.org
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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-
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 ; Trailer to his
latest movie on overpopulation: http://youtu.be/KLWxWOcUrVc
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:
Alexandra Paul talks about human overpopulation and saving
our world by all women having 1 child only:
One planet, one child:
This film will rock you: MOTHER: CARING FOR 7 BILLION
Dr. Jack Alpert , www.skil.org
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We must come to terms with birth control and stabilizing
human population. This three minute video brings the terror of India’s
predicament up close and personal by Paul Winn of Australia:
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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six
continents - from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as eight times across
the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the
Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. In 2012, he bicycled coast to coast
across America. He presents “The Coming
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3 Comments in Response to Thomas Malthus foretold humanity’s gravest plight with clarity
Now, now, Frosty. Your critique of normnip's comment lacked any reason other than name calling.
There are approximately 2,425,600,000 acres of land in the United States. With a population of about 330,000,000 people, that's over 7 acres for every man, woman and child of the country. If you consider the average family being 3.5 people, that's like over 25 acres per family.
Now, when you consider that about two-fifths of the land is kept from the people, locked up by Government in the form of national parks, forests and wilderness lands, people are living just fine on the remaining three-fifths. This means that if Government simply opened up the rest of the land to habitation, we'd have room for another 220,000,000 people without any trouble at all.
It's fun to worry, isn't it Frosty? And it is so extremely wonderful to feel important by making a whole bunch of people worry about nothing. By the time there is any problem (if there ever is), we both will be dead and gone. And nothing we can do or say will EVER handle those future problems correctly anyway.
The people of the future will take care of their problems just as we take care of ours. And worrying about what we can't even understand clearly doesn't do anyone any good.
That critique of my commentary lacked any reason other than name calling. This is not about fear. This is about reality. I research all my work. My commentary is spot on the money. You cannot take one piece of it and disprove it. I am a reasoned, rational, logical and educated mind who has traveled all over the world to see what I write about. You may lack the intellectual horsepower to understand what I wrote. In other words, a second grade teacher would have a hard time convincing you that 2 + 2= 4. FW
Wooldridge actually uses the term 'collective'. Wooldridge is in a panic. He's like the compulsive cleaner would argues flawlessly that if he doesn't clean, the germs will multiple and in just a few days cover the world and kill everyone. He's technically right, of course but doesn't explain why that doesn't happen because he's a fear-driven control addict pretending to be a loving, caring, compassionate person. In his desperate mind there is only one solution: everyone must give up their power of individual choice and obey the infallible, all-knowing collective.