- 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."
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- If animals or humans exceed 'carrying capacity' of any
given land mass, they crash in numbers by various means, i.e., famine,
war and disease.
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- For the 6.4 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 down hill slope. Will the thin veneer of civilization
survive?"
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- 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."
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- The world uses 84 million barrels daily! That's
42 gallons to a drum! By mid century, use will top 110 million barrels
per day. The fact is, it's going to run out because there is only
so much in the ground.
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- 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."
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- Where is the worst overpopulation problem on the planet
according to Dr. Bartlett? "It's right here in the United States!"
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- 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?"
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- How many people in the United States are 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.
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- In other words, we're painting ourselves into a perilous
corner. Once the numbers manifest, our society will suffer irreversible
consequences with unsolvable problems. People say, "Population
is not the problem." How far into the denial hole have you stuck
your head? 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!
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- Sustainable growth, slow growth, managed growth, smart
growth and all other kinds of growth are oxymoronic. There is no
such thing as sustainable growth. 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.
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- "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."
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- Dr. Bartlett suggested Kenneth Boulding's three theorems:
1. Dismal Theorem-if the only ultimate check on the growth of populations
is misery, then the population will grow until it is miserable enough to
stop its growth. (China is an example) 2. Utterly Dismal Theorem-technical
improvements can only relieve misery for a while, thus improvements will
enable more people to live in misery than before. (Green revolution
is an example) 3. Moderately Cheerful Form of Dismal Theorem-if something
else, other than misery and starvation, can be found which will keep a
prosperous population in check, the population does not have to grow until
it is miserable or starves; it can be sustainably prosperous. (Population
stabilization)
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- At the current rate of growth driven by immigration,
America will double its population just past mid century-from 300,000,000
to 600,000,000. 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.
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- "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."
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- '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
10 million annually. India, with 1.1 billion, adds even more yearly.
Bangladesh suffers 129 million people in a landmass the size of Ohio.
Do you see anyone racing to immigrate to those havens of human overload?
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- What I ask is, do we as a nation, want millions upon
millions of added people from countries already exceeding their 'carrying
capacity'? Legal immigration is just as dangerous as illegal.
To think otherwise will allow that 'silent-assertion' to create another
China or India in America. Just imagine Ohio with 129 million people
and all the rest of the United States with THAT kind of population density!
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- Albert Einstein said, "The problems in the world
today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking
that created them."
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- 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 296 million people added to the 6.4 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.
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- Maybe some of us choose to maintain our 'silent-assertion'
in the face of growing consequences, but how can any parent or grand parent
be that callous to their children? That rabbit hole is mighty deep!
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