CONNECTING THE DOTS
Frosty Wooldridge
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Book review: Life on
the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation
Part 7: Impacts,
plethora of people creates a paucity of wildlife
“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage,
despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200
species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their
passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on
the nightly news.”
― Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
― Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
In the news
recently, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Bindi Irwin, daughter of
the late Steve Irwin, the Australian Crocodile Wildlife expert, to write an
essay about why animals suffer extinction on the planet. The young lady wrote a brilliant essay about
human overpopulation encroaching on animal habitat. She noted that humans cause the “Sixth
extinction session” on Earth by their rampaging growth rates. Because America refuses to “fess up” to its
own overpopulation predicament, Hillary Clinton edited any mention of the
population crisis right out of Irwin’s essay.
Clinton used the power of her office to censor the fact that humanity
grows like a cancer on this planet by killing the host and taking countless
millions of species with it.
Without a doubt,
the power of the U.S. press wields the exact same censorship of any discussion
on America’s overpopulation dilemma. No
matter how evident, no matter how impactful, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX and NPR
ignore, evade, avoid and suppress any mention of overpopulation in
America. It’s always “out there” in some
third world country.
(Bindi Irwin standing up to Hillary Clinton U.S. Secretary
of State’s censorship of her essay on humans overpopulating the planet which
causes over 100 extinctions daily across the planet and drives the “Six
Extinction Session” on Earth, the largest since the last asteroid caused the
“Fifth Extinction Session.”)
By reading Crist’s and Cafaro’s book, you will gain gravity
of the problem. In Life
on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation by Professor Philip
Cafaro of Colorado State University and Professor Eileen Crist of Virginia
Tech, we find the top authors and scientists in the world attempting to alert
humanity to its impending future viability on this planet.
In Chapter 6 with Leon Kolankiewicz, he nails down the harsh
realities of the consequences of more people equals less wildlife. He worked with the Peace Corps in 1988 in
Honduras.
“Las Mosquitia had the lowest population density in Central
America…this biological Eden contained intact ecosystems that still teemed with
jaguars, pumas, ocelots, scarlet macaws, toucans, harp eagles, tapirs,
peccaries, anteaters, iguanas, and manatees…all imperiled elsewhere in
overpopulated, overexploited Central America…Alas, the chainsaws, axes,
machetes, explosives, bulldozers, logging trucks, guns, bullets, and the humans
who wield these powerful and destructive implements were encroaching rapidly.”
Those same loggers invaded the 975,000 acre Rio Platano
Biosphere Reserve—without any regard as to the vengeance they took out on
Mother Nature’s inner-most sanctuary.
“We discovered unchecked penetration of illegal logging
roads into the Biosphere Reserve’s core zone,” said Kolankiewicz. “With sinking hearts, we observed a defaced
boundary post; behind it, within the reserve, stretched a vast clear-cut of
sterile stumps where just a year earlier stood lush rainforest.”
With the clear-cutting, and I saw it with my own eyes when I
bicycled through the Amazon, it’s ugly to see the land raped bare. It’s
horrific to understand that all those creatures in the trees and the land
watched their homes, habitat and food sources vanish under the ripping power of
chainsaws.
(Section of clear cutting of Amazon rainforest by illegal
loggers. The rainforests that create the weather patterns for the Western
Hemisphere are losing 1.5 acres every second to clear cutting and burning. Purpose: to create more farming land for
human food crops. Ironically, those rainforests are grown on sand dunes with
scant top soil. The land becomes useless very quickly as the forests vanish.)
Photo by www.Mongabay.com .
Kolankiewiz uses his deep travel experiences along with his
scientific connections to educate the reader as to humanity’s impending
consequences. He speaks clearly and
concisely.
(Clear cutting creates sediment runoff that destroys rivers
and fish populations.) Photo by www.TheNaturalWorld.com
“Globally, the situation is just as grim,” Kolankiewiz said.
“In a dismal 2010 report card based on 31 indicators, the journal Science reported
that the “rate of bio-diversity loss” does not appear to be slowing. Eminent biologists and authors like Jared
Diamond and E.O.Wilson, and Norman Myers all agree that population growth and
the forces it multiplies or unleashes on the landscape are devastating
biodiversity. Diamond refers to an “Evil
Quartet” of habitat destruction, fragmentation, overharvesting and introduced
species.”
Since we humans exploded to 7.1 billion within 100 years, we
and the rest of life on this planet cannot afford another 100 years of our
population exponential growth. As Wilson
called it, “our reproductive folly.”
The late Donella Meadows, author of The Limits to Growth, said, “Our species is unique, because here
and now only we have the ability to destroy or save our biodiversity. Only we have the ability to care one way or
the other. The destiny of all living
things is in our hands. Will we crush
them or let them be wild and free?
Limiting human population will not guarantee success, but not doing so
means certain failure [for all wild life on this planet.]”
Reading this book will sober you, make you cry, hurt your
feelings and in the end, hopefully, call you to action. It’s in your hands to make a difference. The
worst decision you can make is to think that you can do so little that you do
nothing at all.
You can join these organizations or create similar
organizations in your own countries to stop human population overload.
www.CapsWeb.org
; www.NumbersUSA.org ; www.FairUS.org ; www.TheSocialContract.com ; www.PopulationMatters.com ; www.ControlGrowth.org
Part 8: Global human footprint on biodiversity
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Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation
Authors: Philip Cafaro, Eileen Crist
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press, www.ugapress.org
ISBN: 978-0-8203-4385-3
Price: $24.95 www.amazon.com
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Alexandra Paul talks about human overpopulation and saving
our world by all women having 1 child only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNxctzyNxC0
This film will rock you: MOTHER: CARING FOR 7 BILLION
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 .
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 ;760 Wycliffe
Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 USA; +1 719-576-5565
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.
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Athens, Greece. In 2012, he bicycled coast to coast across America. He
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1 Comments in Response to Part 5: Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation
Frosty, I love your series title, "Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation." We finally have found something that we can agree upon. The first line in the brief intro, "We are living in a period of mass extinction." That's what we agree on.
It's true. All different kinds of species are dying out. And did you notice that as they die out, the numbers of people are increasing? Oh yes. That's what your series is all about. But don't be afraid. Almost all the people that were around 100 years ago have died out in the beginnings of this mass extinction. And all the billions of people living right now are going to make this mass extinction even larger in the next hundred years.
Are you and I going to be around to see what it will be like 100 years from now? Who really knows? But if the past is any indicator of the future, we won't be.
You kind of don't make any sense, Frosty. Why are you so worried about mass extinction? Are you afraid that somebody might die? Yet, you would like to get rid of some of the people so that, that, that what? So that they don't die?
Are you afraid that some of the animals are going to die? They all die. And most of them do not live as long as people. So, what's your big point that you are pushing this mass extinction info at us all the time for?
Oh I get it. If you can help people to really become scared, they just might run to Government or Big Business for help. Then you can siphon some funds out of Government or Big Business and live a little more comfortably in your miserable, mass extincted life, at the expense of a whole lot of fearful little people.
Yeah, but that's only half of it. The other half is that you want to prove that man can do it without God. Man without God doesn't have a clue.