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By Frosty Wooldridge

“If you breathe the air over Los Angeles or any large city, you’re smoking more than a pack of cigarettes every 24 hours whether you like it or not.”

LA resident

Recent estimates show more than 100 million Americans breathe polluted air in major cities across America. Air pollution increases lung cancer, asthma susceptibility and injects tiny particles coated with chemicals into human beings' bodies. Pregnant women breathe poisonous air into their fetus' delicate and developing tissue. Many other health consequences cascade from air pollution.

Every day in America (on average):

• 40,000 people miss school or work due to asthma.
• 30,000 people have an asthma attack.
• 5,000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma.
• 1,000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma.
• 11 people die from asthma.

* An estimated 20 million Americans suffer from asthma (1 in 15 Americans), and 50 percent of asthma cases are "allergic-asthma." The prevalence of asthma has been increasing since the early 1980s across all age, sex and racial groups.

* Asthma is the most common chronic condition among children.

* Annual cost of asthma is estimated to be $18 billion.

* 400,000 Americans die of lung cancer annually.

Data source: Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.

If you live in Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Houston and other large cities, you can 'see' the air you breathe. It's brown, yellow or tan in color. It shifts in layers over the skyline. Tall smoke-stacks belch unending streams of poisons from power plants -- diesel trucks spew polluting toxic smoke ribbons along the expressways -- cars by the millions emit tons of particulates into the air. Millions of homes burn wood, oil and natural gas that exhausts into air over our cities. Sewer systems spew toxic air into our once clean environment. Massive bovine herds emit methane gas by the millions of metric tons.

In our city of Denver, Colorado, the "red-warning" flag flies scores of days during the October through April period, typically. No one can burn wood in their fireplaces on red flag days!

During the many summer "temperature-inversion days" in Denver, as you drive toward the city on I-70 out of the mountains, you can see the "brown soup" that you are about to breathe. When I come back home from a weekend in the pristine air of the Rockies, I'm sickened that I'm back to breathing that toxic air with every breath I take.

Can it get worse?

You bet! Denver expects to add two to three million more people in three decades as the rest of the country adds 100 million people by 2040. Some experts tell us those numbers are much higher. The 2008 PEW Report reported 138 million people added by 2050. That means we could reach an added 100 million by 2035 or sooner. It means greater air pollution for every city.

In the summer of 2007 in Denver, Colorado, air quality monitors registered 74 micrograms per cubic meter of particulate — the highest ever recorded for dirty air over the metro area.

As Denver's Rocky Mountain News journalist Todd Hartman reported, "Dirty air over the metro area could linger into today, prolonging a stretch of toxic pollution that has prompted warnings even for healthy people. Air monitors have recorded unprecedented levels of particulates -- this is gritty air."

Colorado regulator Mike Silverstein, at the state health department said, "We are praying for winds." Winds from the west tend to sweep the pollution toward the east.

What happens when those winds blow air pollution out of our cities? It falls as acid rain on the land, in our lakes and into our rivers. It poisons the earth and water. It creates havoc with nitrogen-fixing-bacteria in our top-soil. It kills entire fish populations in lakes and rivers. It kills trees and native vegetation by changing their soil PH balance. It's insidious, deadly and growing worse. And worst of all, it often finds a route to other nations.

What are we doing about air pollution?

As a result of expensive clean-up actions by industry, emissions have been reduced – but the awkward and unplanned growth overwhelms clean-up efforts. Lacking an overall strategic growth-plan, pollution pockets arise overnight.

In the next three decades, if we add 100 million people, that will add up to 50 to 60 million more cars, trucks, planes and trains to the mix. We will add at least 30 million homes, thousands of schools, malls, firehouses, sewage treatment plants, commercial businesses, power plants and more air pollution generating facilities. That human growth adds millions of miles of roads, cuts down millions of trees, and paves-over millions of acres of beautiful open-space lands – some of which give us the vegetables we need every day.

Our breathing-oxygen comes from the green plants we destroy both on the land and phytoplankons in the oceans.

How many other physical health consequences do we suffer as human beings live in air polluted cities? How about eye irritation? How about toxic heavy metals and nasty chemicals transported to our brain tissue – carried by the oxygen to the otherwise life-giving cells of our lungs. How about birth defects caused to children? How about long-term effects on plant and animal life downstream from air polluted cities?

Willy-Nilly Population Growth Continues – Unchecked.

How long until our eyes open to the surety that we create tomorrow's unfathomable consequences for future generations by our irrational population growth? Even if we mandated zero population growth in the United States today -- by shutting down all immigration, our own population momentum adds 35 million people to this country in the three-generations born here by 2040. In other words, we're placing future generations into a no-win situation.

Our civilization stands frozen on the tracks – ironically bewildered -- in the headlights of a runaway population freight train of our own making.

BY Frosty Wooldridge

As America slides further down the immigration ladder into gathering discontent of millions who feel slighted, entitled or angry--we face ultimate breakdown as to what it means and feels to be an 'American'.

On July 1, 2008, in Denver, Colorado, Mayor John Hickenlooper stood for the singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” at his State of the City address.

A local singer, Rene Marie, contracted to sing the national anthem, instead, shocked the audience with the “Black National Anthem.”

Everyone in the audience gasped or swallowed hard! Rene Marie sat down with a sense of arrogant satisfaction as if she just put one over on her audience. She did!

Ms. Marie smugly disrespected America!

Denver Councilman Charlie Brown took to local talk radio later to blast the lack of the nation's anthem at the proceedings. "There's no replacement for the national anthem. They should have sung it. She sung the black national anthem to advance her career, but maybe her career is not worth advancing."

A quick 1,000 miles away in Chicago, Barack Obama’s minister, Pastor Jeremiah Wright spoke eloquently to condemn America with “Not God Bless America, but God D*** America for her sins against blacks and other minorities of the world.”

Gross disrespect for America!

Of all the countries on this planet, no other nation offers more opportunities to become educated, expand, succeed and thrive for all its citizens of every color. Every child enjoys free education to the 12th grade and, for those who excel, scholarships offer minorities infinite possibilities.

Mexican illegals, across the nation in the past two years, dragged our nation’s flag, “Old Glory”, through the mud and across the concrete in their marches for their ‘rights’ to break our laws.

Ugly disrespect for America!

Last Tuesday night, I attended a speech by Los Angeles radio talk show host Terry Anderson, www.theterryandersonshow.com , in Thornton, Colorado. He explained how illegal aliens overwhelm LA with gangs and how they kill blacks as a matter of standard operating procedure.

Illegals’ killing Americans depicts lack of respect for America!

“Do you notice how our politicians go after the Hispanic vote, the African-American vote, but never talk about the American vote,” Anderson said. “We are losing what it means to be an American.”

This week, I walked into my Wells-Fargo bank in Denver to see directions in Spanish everywhere I looked.

Disrespect for English, our national language, by our own banks!

In order to become a citizen in this country, you must learn how to speak our language, but our own institutions, in pursuit of money, pander to those who reside here while violating our laws. Wells-Fargo supports breaking of our legal directives.

Disrespect for America’s laws!

In his new book, THE NEW CASE AGAINST IMMIGRATION: BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL, Mark Krikorian said, “America is losing its national identity through mass immigration creating ‘transnationals’ that never fully assimilate into our American society.

“The combination of these two modern traits—transnationalism and multiculturalism—means that mass immigration today is much less likely to result in the kind of deep assimilation of the vast majority of immigrants and their children that is necessary for immigration to be successful.”

Loss of respect for what it means to be an American!

In other words, the dangerous Balkanizing process, or creating separate and disparate ethnic communities away and against the mainstream of America—accelerates the disintegration of America as a viable and cohesive civilization.

By following through with this process over time, we find examples in separate societies in modern-day London, England; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Holland and many cities in Spain, Germany and Italy. Not only do those countries grow separated, they grow contentious against each other.

If you look at present day Miami, two separate cultures exist. Racism explodes! Chicago illustrates this growing dilemma: two million illegal aliens. American blacks and the rest of Americans make up the rest of the folks in the Windy City. Los Angeles provides a violent example of disrespect for America as thousands of cars sport bumper stickers: “F*** you! This is Mexico”.

Another aspect of ‘transnationalism’ finds new legal and illegal immigrants able to step into American society enjoying all its benefits, but maintain duel citizenship and connection via the Internet and inexpensive phone connections—to their old countries. Thus, the adoption of the ‘consciousness of an American’ falls into the gutter while a confused sense of entitlement for one’s former country engenders further separation. That phenomenon results in the new hyphenated-American as well as a growing separation of ourselves against ourselves.

Total disrespect for America!

As a nation, we cannot survive these uninvolved, un-assimilated, un-invested pseudo-Americans.

As syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin said, “When it comes to our immigration mess, no one has a deeper understanding of the facts than Mark Krikorian. Pay attention: America’s future is at stake.”

U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo said, “The survival of Western culture stands at a crossroads.”

For average citizens that call themselves “Americans”, the very foundation of America rots underneath them while their own PC leaders engage ‘multiculturalism and diversity’ as a politically correct term for national suicide. Multiculturalism stops American leaders in their tracks. Multiculturalism counters against everything ‘American’.

The irony of this phenomenon stems from the fact that American culture allows the most people, the most security, the most opportunity, the most quality of life and the most enjoyable life experience. Do you see millions of people charging off for a better life in Zimbabwe, Sudan, China, Mexico, Bangladesh or India?

Multiculturalism disrespects the foundation of America by destroying the foundation of our language, our culture and our ethos as a civilization. In the end, we slit our collective throats with ‘multiculturalism’.

Multiculturalism: disrespect for America and being American!

“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.” President Teddy Roosevelt

If we might save our civilization as Mark Krikorian said, “We must stop all legal and illegal immigration.”

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“A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.”

Garrett Hardin

As our dilemma accelerates, the overpopulation picture clarifies for every American. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry said in that great movie, “A man’s got to know his limitations.”

The same stands for a family, a community, state and country. Everything includes limits. A glass of water can only hold as much as it can hold. Basketball limits a team to five players. A movie theater holds a limited amount of seating. A plane with a 200 passenger limit must carry exactly that number and not one extra.

Science and Agricultural Professor David Pimentel, Cornell University, January 4, 2007, said, “The U.S. population has doubled in the past six decades to over 300 million people. Currently, the U.S. population growth rate is now more than twice that of China. In 100 years, at our current growth rate, the U.S. population is projected to reach 1.2 billion -- or nearly the population of China. Is this what we want for future America?

“Like it or not, our natural resources, from land to wood to oil to water, are finite and cannot sustain an infinite population growth without seriously impacting our quality of life. The time has come for government planners and citizens alike to begin weighing the impacts of unabated population growth.”

Pimentel said, “More than 99 percent of all our food comes from the land and less than 1 percent from the oceans and other aquatic ecosystems. Each American consumes more than 2,200 lbs of food per year, and to produce this food requires more than 3.6 acres of agricultural land. Most U.S. cropland is now in production and little is available for expanding food production.”

As noted earlier, each added American destroys 12.6 acres of land to support him or her throughout life.

“Along with land, an ample supply of fresh water is essential for food and other human needs,” Pimentel said. “Water shortages already exist in many parts of the nation, especially in western and southern states – and such shortages will become more acute if population growth continues unabated. Each American uses about 530,000 gallons of water per year, with about 80 percent used just for food production. For example, an acre of corn requires 500,000 gallons of water during the growing season.”

Pimentel added, “More than 90 percent of U.S. oil reserves have already been pumped, and currently more than 63 percent of U.S. oil has to be imported from other nations at a cost of more than $120 billion/year. Yearly, each American uses energy equivalent to 2,800 gallons of oil, with 500 gallons devoted just for food production.

“Fossil energy is a non-renewable resource, which means that Americans will require renewable energy sources in the future. Depending on the geographic region, the renewable energy technologies with the greatest potential are photo-voltaics, hydropower, wind energy, biomass (thermal), solar thermal, and passive solar. Yet, even when all solar-based technologies become operational, they are expected to provide only half of the current U.S. energy consumption. These renewable energy technologies will require about 17 percent of U.S. land area for their production -- and this is equal to current cropland area in use.”

The U.S. produces 4.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year. This uses 18 percent of the U.S. corn crop but the yield represents only one percent of U.S. petroleum use. If 100 percent of U.S. corn were used, the estimated ethanol yield would provide only about six percent of U.S. petroleum needs. As mentioned earlier, ethanol as a viable alternative remains a fantasy.

“The continued expansion of the human population not only is depleting fossil fuels, it is reducing the numbers of native species of plants, animals, and microbes throughout the U.S., many of which are vital to agricultural production processes, such as pollination, and essential for a quality environment,” Pimentel said. “Converting land to development and highways destroys valuable cropland acreage. For example, in California 240,000 acres of farmland were lost last year to development.”

Pimentel added, “Highway construction also destroys many thousands of acres of natural habitat for survival of native species. Nearly four million miles of highways cover our land. The area being blacktopped each year is 1.3 million acres (an area equal to the State of Delaware). No species lives under the blacktop. Rapid, unabated population growth, including legal and illegal immigrants, also is stressing school systems. Some schools have three times the number of students that they can handle with the available teachers and support staff. Overall this lowers our effectiveness of the education system, which in turn reduces the economic viability and competitiveness of the United States in the global market.”

Though we feel immune from our accelerating population crisis, it manifests in every sector of our society. “Similarly, the rapid increase in the population is crowding medical facilities in the United States,” Pimentel said. “In the past two decades the number of outpatients in hospitals has increased more than two fold, and continues to increase. Some hospitals have been forced to close due to the pressure on their emergency and outpatient facilities.”

In California, that number exceeds 86 hospitals and ER wards in the past five years suffered closing via bankruptcy.

“The rapid population increase in the United States is challenging our food production system, the economy in general, and the environment,” Pimentel said. “As humans and their diverse activities expand, the sustainability of the natural environment is threatened and diminished for the future. We, as a nation, must come to grips with the harsh reality that our land, energy, food and water are finite. The quality of life for us, and especially for our children and future generations, is closely linked to the number of people who live in our 50 states.” Professor David Pimentel, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Are you connecting the dots? Do you see the cliff we drive toward as a civilization?

By Frosty Wooldridge

Every week, I carry my recycling to the curb in Westminster, Colorado. At the same time, I look out over the city bristling with light rail, RTD, bicycles and everyone pretending to move with ‘green’ actions. Denver’s good citizens recycle and care about our environment just like me! Wrong! Only 30 percent of Coloradans recycle. Peter Coors made sure of that by his successful efforts to kill our bottle, can and plastic recycling laws, not once, but twice!

But no matter how much progress we make on ‘green’ anything with media hype, our out-of-control population growth wipes out any gains by the most compelling recycling and conservation programs—in the nation and across the planet. America grows by 3.1 million annually. It expects to add 100 million in 35 years as that growth explodes exponentially.

Therefore, plans fall behind the harsh reality of population growth, car growth, housing growth and habitat destruction.

As Jack Hart, managing editor of the Oregonian said, “Every day we dump more planet-threatening gas into the atmosphere. Why? Because at the same time Portland's metro-area population has grown by 42 percent! We cancel out every reduction in CO2 emissions with a gain in CO2 emitters. Projections say the metro population will grow by another million by 2030 -- even double to 3.85 million by 2060. Do you really think anything we can do will meet the goal of actually reducing total CO2 emissions?”

Guess what folks! Denver follows right down the path of self-destruction!

Hart continued, “A strange taboo keeps us from talking about the actual cause of global warming and a deadly smorgasbord of other environmental problems. In this supposedly plain-talking era, a former presidential candidate will tell us how Viagra cured his ED, but hardly anybody will talk about what's trashing the Earth. Erectile dysfunction's a bummer. But the fate of our planet is a little more worrisome.

”The taboo afflicts most media, including this newspaper. The Oregonian's Earth Day editorial urged support for politicians who back energy-efficient buildings, wind power, public transportation and so on. Everything but population stabilization!

”When it comes to global warming, we're ignoring one simple truth: The Earth doesn't care about per-capita greenhouse-gas production. It's the total amount of CO2 in the air that matters.”

Back to Colorado! We spend another $121 million on the Gross Reservoir expansion. We add another $421 million to dam the Cashe Poudre River! Therefore, we add another million people to Colorado in ten years! More impact, more growth, more disaster facing future generations.

Fellow Coloradans, this problem runs planet-wide. The USA expects an added 100 million in 30 years—driven by legal and illegal immigration. The planet grows by one billion people every 13 years—but no one wants to talk about that—least of all the Catholic Church or Islam or any of them! Taboo!

As Hart said, “We fixate on global warming, while our rampaging population mows down the rest of the planet's inhabitants behind our backs. When Oregon's offshore salmon stocks collapsed this spring, the blame fell on the Sacramento Delta, where many of the fish originate. A former oceanography professor who works in the area said, "If you want to blame something, it's the increasing population of California."

Fellow citizens, Jack Hart gets it! When are you going to ‘get it’?

Hart continued, “Population drives immigration, too. Consider Mexico, which quadrupled in population between 1933 and 1980. The only way it could avoid collapse was by flooding the United States with the excess. Projections call for countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to double their populations every 20 years, and many of those people will inevitably find their way to the United States. Ninety-one percent of our population growth over the next 40 years will come from post-2000 immigrants and their descendants.”

The non-Anglo nature of that immigration may explain why some Americans think it's racist to mention it. But a sane discussion of immigration's impact on the environment has nothing to do with race. The quality of American life will be forever damaged by the arrival of 100 million immigrants, whether they're Mexican or English or French.

Again, let’s quit pretending that technology will save our civilization. It won’t!

Hart continued, “If you want to help, don't waste your time on inconsequential environmental work that treats the symptoms while ignoring the disease. A carpooling project saved -- according to its own chest-thumping claims -- 3,000 tons of CO2 over five years. That's pathetic -- we could have accomplished the same thing by slowing metro-area population growth by 30 people a year.”

Five ways to help the planet

1. Eliminate the taboo that keeps us from talking about the root cause of our environmental -- and many other -- problems. Concern about overpopulation is not racist, communist, sexist or biased against the Third World. We all have a stake in this.

2. Quit mistaking per-capita pollution numbers as a sign of progress.

3. Reward politicians who support population control with your votes. Eliminate tax breaks for more than two children. Focus foreign aid on population-control programs.

4. Keep your own family small. World population will eventually level off only if we hold average births per woman to 2.06. We'll reduce the world population to a sustainable size only if women average no more than 1.7 children.

5. Stop treating growth as not only inevitable, but also positive. It’s not! -- Jack Hart

As I write each week, more and more Americans understand that ALL our problems stem from overpopulation. Now, more and more writers stand up with the guts to address what we face. Since we maintain a stable population, we must stop immigrating 200,000 people into this country every 30 days. That's two Rose Bowl stadiums filled every month, then emptied into the USA, then filled again and emptied--month after month, year after year. We must move on a moratorium on all immigration. As I provoke the discussion, I urge you to take action on behalf of your children and future generations—both human as well as plant and animal.

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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

To take action: www.numbersusa.com

www.thesocialcontract.com

www.fairus.org

www.proenglish.org

www.capsweb.org

www.vdare.com

“A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.”  Garret Hardin

As our dilemma accelerates, the picture for overpopulation clarifies for every American. Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry said in that great movie, “A man’s got to know his limitations.”

The same stands for a family, a community, state and country. Everything has limits. A glass of water can only hold as much as it can hold. Only nine players can play on a baseball team on the field at one time. Basketball limits a team to five players. A movie theater holds a limited amount of seating. A plane with a 200 passenger limit must carry exactly that number and not one extra.

David Pimentel, Cornell University, January 4, 2007, said, “The U.S. population has doubled in the past six decades to over 300 million people. Currently, the U.S. population growth rate is now more than twice that of China. In 100 years, at our current growth rate, the U.S. population is projected to reach 1.2 billion -- or nearly the population of China. Is this what we want for future America?

“Like it or not, our natural resources, from land to wood to oil to water, are finite and cannot sustain an infinite population growth without seriously impacting our quality of life. The time has come for government planners and citizens alike to begin weighing the impacts of unabated population growth.”

Pimentel said, “More than 99 percent of all our food comes from the land and less than 1 percent from the oceans and other aquatic ecosystems. Each American consumes more than 2,200 lbs of food per year, and to produce this food requires more than 3.6 acres of agricultural land. Most U.S. cropland is now in production and little is available for expanding food production.”

As noted earlier, each added American destroys 12.6 acres of land to support him or her throughout life.

“Along with land, an ample supply of freshwater is essential for food and other human needs,” Pimentel said. “Water shortages already exist in many parts of the nation, especially in western and southern states – and such shortages will become more acute if population growth continues unabated. Each American uses about 530,000 gallons of water per year, with about 80 percent used just for food production. For example, an acre of corn requires 500,000 gallons of water during the growing season.”

Pimentel added, “More than 90 percent of U.S. oil reserves have already been pumped, and currently more than 63 percent of U.S. oil has to be imported from other nations at a cost of more than $120 billion/year. Yearly, each American uses energy in the equivalent to 2,800 gallons of oil, with 500 gallons devoted just for food production.

“Fossil energy is a non-renewable resource, which means that Americans will require renewable energy sources in the future. Depending on the geographic region, the renewable energy technologies with the greatest potential are photo-voltaics, hydropower, wind energy, biomass (thermal), solar thermal, and passive solar. Yet, even when all solar-based technologies become operational, they are expected to provide only half of the current U.S. energy consumption. These renewable energy technologies will require about 17 percent of U.S. land area for their production -- and this is equal to current cropland area in use.”

The U.S. produces 4.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year. This uses 18 percent of the U.S. corn crop but the yield represents only one percent of U.S. petroleum use. If 100 percent of U.S. corn were used, the estimated ethanol yield would provide only about six percent of U.S. petroleum needs. As mentioned earlier, ethanol as a viable alternative remains a fantasy.

“The continued expansion of the human population not only is depleting fossil fuels, it is reducing the numbers of native species of plants, animals, and microbes throughout the U.S., many of which are vital to agricultural production processes, such as pollination, and essential for a quality environment,” Pimentel said. “Converting land to development and highways not only takes away valuable cropland acreage. For example, in California 240,000 acres of farmland was lost during last year to development.”

Pimentel added, “Highway construction also destroys many thousands of acres of natural habitat for survival of native species. Nearly 4 million miles of highways cover our land. The area being blacktopped each year is 1.3 million acres (an area equal to the State of Delaware). No species lives under the blacktop. Rapid, unabated population growth, including legal and illegal immigrants, also is stressing school systems. Some schools have three times the number of students that they can handle with the available teachers and support staff. Overall this lowers our effectiveness of the education system, which in turn reduces the economic viability and competitiveness of the United States in the global market.”

Though we feel immune from our accelerating population crisis, it manifests in every sector of our society. “Similarly, the rapid increase in the population is crowding medical facilities in the United States,” Pimentel said. “In the past two decades the number of outpatients in hospitals has increased more than two fold, and continues to increase. Some hospitals have been forced to close due to the pressure on their emergency and outpatient facilities.”

In California, that number exceeds 86 hospitals and ER wards in the past five years suffered closing via bankruptcy.

“The rapid population increase in the United States is challenging our food production system, the economy in general, and the environment,” Pimentel said. “As humans and their diverse activities expand, the sustainability of the natural environment is threatened and diminished for the future. We, as a nation, must come to grips with the harsh reality that our land, energy, food and water are finite. The quality of life for us, and especially for our children and future generations, is closely linked to the number of people who live in our 50 states.” Professor David Pimentel, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Are you connecting the dots? Do you see the brick wall or cliff we drive toward as a civilization?

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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

To take action: www.numbersusa.com

www.thesocialcontract.com

www.fairus.org

www.proenglish.org

www.capsweb.org

www.vdare.com

From: Frosty Wooldridge

This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.

Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:

http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364p>

Frosty Wooldridge

www.frostywooldridge.com

By Frosty Wooldridge

“Colorado lost 1.6 million acres in the 1990s while it grew by 1.3 million people. It expects to lose 3.1 million more acres to concrete and asphalt via development by 2022.”

                                                       
                                                       
                   Denver Post

In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar defied the Roman senate by crossing the Rubicon River to wage civil war against another Roman--Pompey the Great. By crossing the Rubicon, Caesar made a decision whereby he could not turn back.

Today, “Crossing the Rubicon” means no way to change, repair or undo your destiny. Yes, Caesar conquered Pompey, but the Roman senate, along with Brutus, stabbed Caesar to death. “Et tu Brutus?” Caesar gasped with his last breath.

If the Congress and president sign any kind of an immigration amnesty or jump legal immigration in the near future, they cast the dye; they cross the Rubicon of America’s environmental death knell. They most certainly ensure 100 million more people added to our country that explodes our nation to 400 million on our way to a half billion. Once manifested, we will not be able to turn back.

Mike Matz, writer for the McClatchy-Tribune, December 27, 2007, “Losing Spaces”, said, “We lose four acres of open space each minute in this country. That’s 6,000 acres a day of meadows turned into housing tracts, malls and paved parking lots. That equals 2.19 million acres annually of destroyed wilderness.”

In a crystal clear expose’, “Crossing the Agricultural Rubicon”, Dr. John Tanton, Spring 2005, The Social Contract Quarterly, presented harsh realities regarding America’s food supply.

“We export immense quantities of corn, wheat, soybeans, etc., but much of this crop is fed to animals or processed into food that we then re-import as higher-value agricultural products,” Tanton said. “It is the dollar value of imports that is projected to be equal to exports for 2005.”

He continued, “The U.S. consumes two-thirds of its own grown food. As population grows, more agricultural land will be converted to non-agricultural uses—roads, hospitals, schools, parking lots, shopping malls and housing projects. Our expanding population will cause us to import more food. The net result will be the gradual decline of our agricultural trade surpluses. We are already in energy deficit as we import 12 million of the 20 millions barrels of oil we burn each day. Now we have a diminishing agricultural exchange surplus with which to buy fuel to facilitate that very agriculture.”

The United States feeds the world, but as Tanton exposes in his excellent graphs and charts, we already import as much as we export: “We won’t feed people around the world much longer,” Tanton said.

For example, Colorado’s population will add 1.5 million by 2022. That increase means, according to the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post, that 3.1 million acres of prime farm land suffer development into homes, roads, malls, schools and business parks.

Another aspect of this “Agricultural Rubicon” manifests itself in Eric Schlosser’s “FAST FOOD NATION” where he exposes the chemicalization of our foods by hundreds of additives, colors, preservatives and poisons like the chemical sweetener aspartame.

Since 1950, farmers have sprayed their crops with herbicides and pesticides while injecting soils with dozens of chemical fertilizers that destroy nitrogen fixing bacteria and poison earthworms, bees and birds into early graves. Today, we force genetically modified seeds to produce unnatural harvests while we clone many vegetables and create perfect apples.

In conjunction with fertilizers draining into rivers which poison fish we eat, farm land absorbs acid rain from chemical contaminants raining down from the sky from tens of thousands of industrial smoke stacks spewing sulfur, ammonia, incinerated plastics, mercury and other toxic amalgamations into the air.

If you think our government tells the unvarnished truth, think again.

In a recent report by Lester Brown, publisher of “State of the World”, he notes that farming causes the loss of 26 billion tons of topsoil annually worldwide. Once soils suffer depletion, chemical fertilizers may allow crops to grow, but a consumer may as well be eating cotton candy for the lack of micro-nutrient value in foods.

Dr. David Pimentel, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, says if we think growing huge amounts of corn for ethanol fuel provides an option, we need to think that over.

He writes: “Our up-to-date analysis of the 14 energy inputs that typically go into corn production and the nine invested in fermentation and distillation operations confirms that 29 percent more energy (derived from fossil fuels) is required to produce a gallon of corn ethanol than is contained in the ethanol. Ethanol from cellulosic biomass is worse: with current technology, 50 percent more energy is required to produce a gallon than the product can deliver. In any event, biomass ethanol is a bad choice from an energy standpoint.

“The environmental impacts of corn ethanol are enormous. They include severe soil erosion, heavy use of nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides, and a significant contribution to global warming. In addition, each gallon of ethanol requires 1,700 gallons of water (to grow the corn) and produces six to 12 gallons of noxious organic effluent.

“Using food crops, such as corn grain, to produce ethanol also raises major ethical concerns. More than 3.7 billion humans in the world are currently malnourished, so the need for grains and other foods is critical. Growing crops to provide fuel squanders resources. Energy conservation and development of renewable energy sources, such as solar cells and solar-based methanol synthesis, should be given priority.”

Remember: for each American added to the United States, 12.6 acres of land must be developed. That’s 1.26 billion acres of land used up that can’t produce food. Experts tell us that by 2040, we’ll be a net importer of food.

Our country heads into dangerous waters. Have you heard the expression, “Up the creek without a paddle?” Whether it’s “Crossing the Rubicon” of agricultural destruction of our food supply, or using up our oil reserves without sufficient alternatives, or exceeding our carrying capacity as to water—we’re overpopulating our nation into grave consequences.

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By Frosty Wooldridge

“We lose four acres a minute, 6,000 acres a day and 2.19 million acres annually to development caused by population growth in the USA.”

                                                       
                                                     Mike Matz, Denver Post

Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity existed by tilling the fields for crops, picking fruits and storing them in root cellars. Transportation included animals, ox carts, rivers and oceans. All limited and slow!

Diseases wiped out millions of people at the drop of a hat. Polio, cholera and Bubonic Plague ruled.

In 1900, the average American male died by 49 years of age. Citizens kept warm by firewood and coal. As long as humans depended on solar flow, winds and currents, we remained sustainable within nature’s carrying capacity.

However, in the late 1800s, steam power burst upon the scene. With it, steam driven ocean liners and trains afforded swift transport across oceans and continents. With the advent of the internal combustion engine, the tractor and car made their appearance.

Whereas one farmer might feed 20 people with his labors, a tractor allowed one farmer the ability to feed 10,000 humans. Food canning guaranteed sustenance throughout the year.

With the advent of electricity, everything changed in America. Coupled with production and the assembly line, consumption became the driving force of capitalism.

Those technologies allowed Americans to overwhelm the natural world. In 1900, we numbered 76 million in America. At the time, scientists created 100 different chemicals. Today, we surpass 72,000 chemicals with an added 1,000 created annually. All of them outside the bounds of nature! All of them deadly to life forms including us.

Today the United States, at 303 million people and headed for 400 million by 2035, sucks the lifeblood out of nature at increasing and alarming rates of speed. If we examined the carnage and consumption of our voracious civilization, we might be appalled at the figures we exact on Mother Nature and our fellow creatures.

We burn 7.3 billion barrels of oil annually in the USA. We burn millions of metric tons of natural gas. We burned 1.17 billion tons of coal to produce electricity in 2006.

However, as fast we produce it, we devour it faster. The Sears Tower in Chicago uses more electricity in a single day than the entire city of Rockford, Illinois with 152,000 people. Humans consume 40 percent of the net primary production of energy on earth—the amount of solar energy converted to plant organic matter through photosynthesis—while we make up less than one percent of the animal biomass on this planet.

“It’s no accident that as we celebrate the urbanization of the world,” said Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation of Economic Trends, “we quickly approach another historic watershed: the disappearance of the wild. Rising population; growing consumption of food, water and building materials; expanding road and rail transport; and urban sprawl continue encroaching on the remaining wild, pushing it to extinction.”

Within the lifetime of our children, vast areas of the wild we take for granted will vanish from our planet. The Trans-Amazon Highway cuts across the entire expanse of the Amazon rain forest, hastening its destruction. What is the result? Biologist E.O. Wilson states that humans create the ‘Sixth Extinction Session’ whereby we lose, “50 to 150 species a day or between 18,000 and 55,000 species a year. By 2100, two-thirds of Earth’s remaining species are likely to become extinct.”

As we kill more and more basic plant and animal life, it creates a cascading effect whereby all creatures depend on all other creatures in the web of life. As you kill off more and more species, a cascade of extinction destroys environmental equilibrium. Given enough time, we shall kill off the grizzly, hummingbird, bald eagle, moose, giraffe, lion, elephant, cheetah, trout, bass, dragonfly and millions more of earth’s creatures.

Makes your head hurt doesn’t it?

Since I’ve already seen this nightmare in India and China, I know what’s coming. Rifkin said, “In the great era of urbanization, we have shut off the human race from the rest of the natural world in the belief that we could conquer, colonize and utilize the riches of the planet to ensure our autonomy without dire consequences to us and future generations.”

Sorry, we can’t get away much longer with what we’re doing to this planet.

It’s as if our citizens by their apathy and our politicians by their ignorance--beg for this country’s demise, its degradation and its collapse.

If I could take you for a two week trip to Mexico City, Mexico; Shanghai, China; Bombay, India; Dacca, Bangladesh; Alexandria, Egypt—you would become sick to your stomach. You would be inspired to take action. You wouldn’t want your children to live what those people endure in their misery by the millions as they cling to life—every day of their lives.

The PBS journalist Bill Moyers asked the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?”

Asimov replied, “It will be completely destroyed. I use what I call the bathroom metaphor: if two people live in an apartment and there are two bathrooms, then both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want to stay as long as you like for whatever you need.

“But if you have twenty people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person; you have to bang on the door, “Aren’t you done yet?”

He concluded, “In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive. Convenience and decency can’t survive. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less one person matters.”

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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

To take action: www.numbersusa.com

www.thesocialcontract.com

www.fairus.org

www.proenglish.org

www.capsweb.org

www.vdare.com

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

From: Frosty Wooldridge

This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.

Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:

http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364p>

Frosty Wooldridge

www.frostywooldridge.com

By Frosty Wooldridge

Have you ever been accused of having too much fun?  Ever ride a motorcycle into a great adventure?  Ever felt like you’re so happy you can’t see straight?  “Well pilgrim,” John Wayne said, “it’s high time we rode over that mountain pass to see what’s on the other side!”

Last weekend, William, Rebecca, Jim, Lisa and Frosty connected at the cut on I-70 west bound.  Shinny bikes!  Lots of leather!  Smiling faces!  Great expectations!

“Do I know any of you strangers?” I asked while shaking hands. 

“Will we want to know you after this ride might be a better question?” Jim said, cracking a smile.

With a full sun rising over the eastern plains, we headed up the Interstate with great expectations.  We aimed our bikes west into the mountains.  Spring green popped up everywhere with aspens in full regalia.  Green shoots exploded out of the lodge pole pines covering mountain flanks like a luxurious blanket.

Up into cooler air!  Up into snow-capped peaks! Up over Loveland Pass through the tunnel.  Ten miles down into the valley over the Blue River!  Up again along a white water river out of Copper Mountain.  Up again over Vail Pass!  We powered our bikes into long sweeping serpentine curves with a hint of icy wind. 

Around us, amazing beauty with aspen, pines, rivers, rocks, hawks soaring and life pulsing in that green mountain majesty! 

We returned to the road on our way toward Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Festival. 

After making our way through brilliant red rock canyons, we flew across several valleys until we entered rugged Glenwood Canyon along the Colorado River.  As we roared into it, the river boiled beside us with rapids and white-water raging from spring runoff.  Sheer cliffs rose vertically from the road. 

We cruised into the turns, throttled into the straight-aways and soared over the river like eagles!  So much beauty!  So many blessings!  I’ve traveled through that canyon hundreds of times in 35 years—never the same and always astounding!

Quick exit into Glenwood!  We ran right up on the beginning of the parade. We parked the bikes and stood with thousands of people waiting for the “Strawberry Festival”.  Wow! 

Clowns, small cars, antique vehicles, 57 Chevys, fire engines, marching bands, Ompa Bands, Miss Colorado,  Bob Shaffer running for US Senate shook our hands, El Jebel guys on their scooters, kids throwing out candy, babies crying, children laughing, “I love a parade”, and 4-H!   Way too much fun!

After the parade, we sat down at the famous “19th Street Diner” with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles, John Wayne and “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” featuring Brando, Monroe, Presley and James Dean.  Inside, sparkling vinyl booths, milk shakes and a sign over the counter: “It’s all Good!”  Also, Monroe with her white dress flying up!  Another poster showing a 57 Chevy and a 58 Pontiac going in opposite directions side by side with a guy and girl poked out of the back windows to catch a kiss!  Classic!

Off to the antique car show at the festival fair grounds!  Yahoo! I loved the Corvettes, Jags, 58 Chevy Impala and 40 other ‘hot’ old cars along with 65 Mustangs and 34 Coups.  Amazing that your eyes remember your youth through the viewing of those old cars.  

We walked over to the tents with ‘things’ to buy as in jewelry, art, décor, paintings, photographs, eating, strawberry pie tasting, all you can eat contests, music, people and SO much more!

“Step right up and get your fortune read,” a lady said.  “See your future!”

Soon, we reached the burning desert of Utah. At Cisco, exit 214, we headed south along the Colorado River Canyon for a 35 mile ride into paradise.

In the meantime, we enjoyed stunning 1,000 foot red/tan vertical cliff walls rising up from the roiling Colorado River—red with dirt and heavy spring snow melt!  We felt like riding through a can of angleworms with not a 100 yards of straight pavement.  The road twisted, turned, dropped, jumped, dived, rose and fell at the whim of the terrain.  Giant spires shot skyward in front of us for more pictures to be taken! 

Soon, near sunset, we hit Moab, Edward Abbey Country!  We gassed up and hit a Mexican Café’ for a fantastic dinner with conversation about a fabulous day on our bikes.  “Good grub,” Jim said.  “I’m hungry.”  An hour later, we headed out to Canyonlands to find a campsite.

Around 10:30 p.m., under a starlit sky, we turned left and drove down two red dirt tracks to a special campsite on the edge of Canyonlands.  Overhead, a never ending night sky featured millions of stars. After we pitched our tents, we enjoyed a pumpkin-colored moon rise up over the canyon walls.

“How would you describe it?” I asked Rebecca.

“Fabulous, awe inspiring,” she said.

“William?” I said.

“Nothing like being out in the middle of nowhere,” he said, “and camp under a night sky like this.  Total wonder!”

Robert Service said of such beauty, “They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching, they have soaked you in convention and comfort through and through; They have put you in a showcase;  you’re a credit to their teaching; but can’t you hear the Wild? It’s call you! 

“Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betides us; Let us journey to a lonely land I know.  There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s star agleam to guide us, and the Wild is calling, calling…let us go.”

Next morning, we found some picnic tables on the canyon rim and enjoyed a fantastic breakfast of oat meal, scrambled eggs, bagels, hot chocolate and conversation. 

Later, we took our time riding to the end where we stopped at “The Grand View.”  Wow! What an amazing sight!  Stunning rock formations stretched for miles. 

Later, we took more photographs and rode the bikes along the mesa.  Great valleys and canyons cut away from the road.  Every curve provided cactus, pinion trees, grasses, flowers and, above us, blue sky.  William and Rebecca powered their bikes into paradise.  I followed!

We sped away from Canyonlands with many memories as we headed our machines toward Arches National Park. 

We powered the bikes up a large snaking canyon road into Arches.  In the next two hours, we sped by “Park Avenue”; “The Three Gossips”; “Petrified Dunes”; “Court Towers”’; “Balanced Rock”; “Garden of Eden”; “Delicate Arch”; “Landscape Arch”; “Natural Bridges”, “The Choir” and other geological wonders.

Abbey, a ranger in the park in the 50s, said, “We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it.  We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it, the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or mental illness.”

Well into the afternoon, after many photographs, we faced a six hour drive back to Denver.  We gassed up not only with petrol, but with memories, of laughter, of good food, of sights seen, of the open highway and our two wheeled steeds.  We clicked the bikes into gear, let out the clutches, turned the throttles and headed into the wind.

“Engines roaring, faces smiling,

We travel that highway through time;

Wheels rolling, minds probing,

The answers there are to find.

My friends and I, we travel far,

A spirit shared by two,

By a glimmering fire or a shimmering lake,

The feelings felt are true.

With ups and down that come our way,

Like mountains high and valleys low,

Each we take with a smile because inside we know.

That open road gives us life,

IT blossoms in our minds.

Seldom do we ever shake,

Dear feelings that do not bind.

So, laugh my friends as our engines roar,

Along each passing mile,

And raise your head up to the sky,

And share with me your smile.”

By Frosty Wooldridge while on the road

somewhere in America.

By Frosty Wooldridge

In an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2008, “In L.A., race kills”, Sheriff Lee Baca wrote a disturbing piece concerning black on brown racially motivated killings.

Baca said, “Conversations about race are fraught with emotion, confusion and controversy. But that doesn't mean we should avoid or sidestep the issue.

”As a Latino raised in East Los Angeles, and as the elected sheriff of Los Angeles County for the last decade, I have seen many sides of the race issue. I have lived it, in fact.

”So let me be very clear about one thing: We have a serious interracial violence problem in this county involving blacks and Latinos.

”Some people deny it. They say that race is not a factor in L.A.'s gang crisis; the problem, they say, is not one of blacks versus Latinos and Latinos versus blacks but merely one of gang members killing other gang members.

”But they're wrong. The truth is that, in many cases, race is at the heart of the problem. Latino gang members shoot blacks because of their skin color. Likewise, black gang members shoot Latinos because they are brown.

”In February 2006, our jail system erupted into a full-scale riot involving about 2,000 black and Latino inmates at the North County Correctional Facility at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic. One black inmate died and numerous others were injured. Through extensive interviews with participants, our investigation revealed that race was the motivating factor.

”Furthermore, we have evidence linking inmates who are known as "shot callers" directly to street shootings based entirely on race. These shot callers at Pitchess and elsewhere are affiliated with gangs, to be sure, and in many cases they may give the order to kill a particular person or a member of a particular gang. But if that person or gang cannot be found, the shot caller will often order the gunman to find someone -- anyone -- who is black or brown and shoot them instead. Only the color of the victim's skin matters.

”I would even take this a step further and suggest that some of L.A.'s so-called gangs are really no more than loose-knit bands of blacks or Latinos roaming the streets looking for people of the other color to shoot.

”Race-based violence has even found its way into our school system, although no deaths have been reported. Some say it's always been there, but it certainly is rearing its ugly head now more than ever. Most recently, fighting broke out in May between more than 600 black and brown students at Locke High School in South L.A.”

In 1908, President Teddy Roosevelt said, “The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or presenting all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.”

“The racial divide is being driven by the ongoing population growth and demographic changes that have buffeted L.A. for decades,” Baca said. “The perception that one group has more opportunities and advantages than another can lead to resentment, competition and, ultimately, spontaneous eruptions of violence.

”The problem of interracial violence is not intractable; we've made progress in other settings. I have seen it on a small scale in the Sheriff's Department's Domestic Violence Prevention Program in our jails.”

”The program was designed to address issues of domestic violence. But over a period of weeks, the participants overcame barriers by being exposed to those they were supposed to hate. They began to form friendships -- friendships that, in some cases, have lasted outside the jail walls.”

”The unification of information, dispassionately collected and analyzed, will lead us toward a disarming of the gang culture. And through disarmament, we will make the streets safer. And that's the whole point.”

While Baca struggles with minuscule success, America’s streets become more dangerous along with highways where drunken illegal aliens drive cars without responsibility.

While America imports 182,000 legal immigrants and illegal aliens every 30 days, a festering inability to get along with one another turns violent in communities across the land. Out of that 82,000 illegals monthly, a full 10 percent or 8,200 of them arrive as hardened criminals ready to ply their trade in our communities. Phoenix, Arizona suffers 57,000 cars stolen annually. Over 15,000 MS-13 gang members operate in 33 states. Millions of illegals drive without licenses or insurance as shown in Greeley, Colorado where they suffered 272 hit and runs last year.

Today, brown on black killing doesn’t account for brown on white killing of police officers like Dallas’ Brian Jackson, Phoenix’s Erfle shot in the face, Don Young in Denver shot in the back of the head and the list grows by the month.

Academics that dreamed up “multiculturalism” for the benefit of our nation failed their anthropology exams. The more ‘diverse’ we become, the more angry and violent our responses. The more packed-in we become, the more our primordial actions manifest. The more our population explodes, the more we must share with less. Obviously, Los Angeles proves our racial ‘bow’ of the Titanic.

As Sheriff Baca stated, “race kills” and Americans of all colors become victims. It accelerates at 182,000 added immigrants every month.

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“Water is essential for all dimensions of life. Over the past few decades, use of water has increased, and in many places water availability is falling to crisis levels. More than eighty countries, with forty percent of the world’s population, are already facing water shortages, while in this century the world’s population will double. The quality of water in rivers and underground has deteriorated, due to pollution by waste and contaminants from cities, industry and agriculture. Over one billion people lack safe water, and three billion lack sanitation; eighty per cent of infectious diseases are waterborne, killing millions of children each year.”

World Bank Institute

We owe our children, and theirs— a sustainable future. We owe our planet-home reasonable and responsible behavior that complies with the laws of nature. As the most prolific species on earth, are we facing our realities?

First question: what provides the most important aspect of human existence? Answer: clean water!

The latest warning signs manifested at Lake Lanier, Georgia in November 2007. If ever a wake-up call, the vanishing waters of the lake portend water shortages for five million people--today. Nonetheless, the Peach State expects to grow from nine million people in 2007 to 16.4 million by 2050. Hello! Knock, knock! Anybody at home?

Charles Gibson, anchor for ABC World News Tonight, February 8, 2008, said, “Scientists say Lake Mead, which provides water for millions in the west, expects to go dry by 2023. It’s caused by drought, climate change and human population growth.”

Colorado State University professor Neil S. Grigg wrote in the Denver Post, “Not a Drop to Spare”, February 17, 2008, said, “Colorado’s water supplies are nearing their limits, and there is little hope for new sources. What’s next?”

None of those experts reported that Georgia’s current population of 8.5 million would double to 16.4 million in four decades. Colorado’s expects to double from 4.6 to 9.8 million. California’s expects to add 20 million in 30 years. Never once did any of the experts pin the needle on the population donkey! It makes you wonder; who made overpopulation a sacred, untouchable cow? Why? Who do they expect to benefit?

Growth and rampant population

As you appreciate, ‘carrying capacity’ becomes the most important phrase in our 21st century vocabulary. It entails the amount of human and animal life a limited area of land can sustain in perpetuity.

As this population overload advances, we face major water dilemmas.

Scientists expect increased evaporation and drier soils leading to more severe and frequent droughts. Hoerling said, “Droughts could be 25 percent worse than the 1930s Dust Bowl days.”

Who stands to suffer the greatest risk? Today, citizens downstream of the Colorado River devour 13.5 million acre feet of the river. Bob Raynolds of NOAA said, “We’re going to have to adapt our survival strategies to coping with less water.”

My question is: how will we adapt when we’ve added 100 million people in the next three decades? Why not choose a stable population now so we won’t have to adapt, but in fact, flourish with a constant population that remains sustainable?

According to Mike Matz, “Losing Spaces”, Denver Post, December 23, 2007, American farmland and wetlands vanish at 6,000 acres per day which equals 2.19 million acres annually for new malls, highways and housing. Ground water stores cannot recharge.

Along with lack of water, we degrade water quality. Californians buy more filtered water than anywhere else in America. Why? They can’t provide enough clean water to their 37.5 million residents. What about polluted and chemicalized water run-off. We spray crops, inject insecticides and apply herbicides onto millions of acres of farmland. It seeps into our groundwater and runs into our rivers. The Mississippi River spews millions of gallons of fertilizer and chemically poisoned water into the Gulf of Mexico that creates a 3,000 square mile dead zone where few fish or native marine life can live. Every river running out of the United States and most industrialized nations carries enormous amounts of poisons. Acid rain from toxic air pollution falls with every rainstorm.

With blinders fully in place, we pursue rampant population growth with no concern toward future generations. Big surprise— people need water to survive.

The World Health Organization reports, in 2006, "Thirty-five percent of humanity doesn't have access to clean drinking water."

Short answer: no!

Humans and wildlife stand at risk.

Let's further see how ironic, useless and inept our leaders prove themselves as they pretend to face our future water dilemmas caused by overpopulation.

Newsweek, April 16, 2007, "Leadership and Environment" interviewed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "The Green Giant" with a picture of him puffing on a cigar. While he filled his lungs with toxic chemicals from the stogie, 37 million Californians' cars, trucks, ships, power plants and homes filled the skies with enormous pollution exhaust.

California expects another added 40 million people by 2050 to reach 79.1 million. (Source: “US Population Projections for 2050” Fogel/Martin, March 2006) What does that mean? It means that nothing will be solved. Every aspect of California's accelerating consequences will be multiplied by adding 40 million people.

Another Newsweek piece by Jessica Ramirez, "How to Live a Greener Life" presented wonderful methods for curbing billions of metric tons of greenhouse gases created in the US annually. As if trees can compete with millions of combustion engines burning 20 million barrels daily! They cannot!

Water? No longer pure! No longer clean! Dangerously polluted! No longer ample!

Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet.  Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years.  Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

To take action: www.numbersusa.com

                      www.thesocialcontract.com

                      www.fairus.org

                      www.proenglish.org

                      www.capsweb.org

                      www.vdare.com

Final note:  I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates to add to my monthly “Master Mind Think Tank.”   In reality, our politicians foment the problems that they campaign to solve.  They never solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos.   I need new ideas and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto the front burner: overpopulation in America caused by ceaseless legal and illegal immigration.  As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years.  We need to stop it and we need to stop it now.  Join me in saving our civilization. frostyw@juno.com

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