- In the past week, a cyclone ripped through Burma with
devastating results. Death estimates exceed 100,000 and may rise to a
million if survivors do not find food, water and housing. What the cyclone
didn't render, diseases may bring even greater disaster.
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- China suffered an earthquake at 7.9, which caused thousands
of deaths.
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- In America's heartland, dozens of tornadoes destroyed
entire communities while killing American citizens. Wildfires rage across
California, Florida and other states at this moment. The destruction and
death toll continue mounting as Colorado and other states race into the
upcoming fire season.
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- Eleanor Roosevelt said it 50 years ago; "We must
prevent human tragedy rather than run around trying to save ourselves after
an event has already occurred. Unfortunately, history clearly shows that
we arrive at catastrophe by failing to meet the situation, by failing to
act when we should have acted. The opportunity passes us by and the next
disaster is always more difficult and compounded than the last one."
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- After a typhoon hit Bangladesh thirty some years ago,
Garrett Hardin wrote a piece for Science, February 12, 1971, volume 171,
Number 3971, American Association for the Advancement of Science. The late
Professor Hardin taught biology at the University of California at Santa
Barbara.
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- "Those of us who are deeply concerned about population
and the environment -"econuts," we're called," Hardin said,
"are accused of seeing herbicides in trees, pollution in running brooks,
radiation in rocks, and overpopulation everywhere. There is merit in the
accusation.
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- "I was in Calcutta when the cyclone struck East
Bengal in November 1970. Early dispatches spoke of 15,000 dead, but the
estimates rapidly escalated to 2,000,000 and then dropped back to 500,000.
A nice round number: it will do as well as any, for we will never know.
The nameless ones who died, "unimportant" people far beyond the
fringes of the social power structure, left no trace of their existence.
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- "Pakistani parents repaired the population loss
in just 40 days, and the world turned its attention to other matters.
What killed those unfortunate people? "The cyclone," newspapers
said. But one can just as logically say that overpopulation killed them.
The Gangetic Delta is barely above sea level.
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- "Every year several thousand people are killed in
quite ordinary storms. If Pakistan were not overcrowded, no sane man would
bring his family to such a place. Ecologically speaking, a delta belongs
to the river and the sea; man obtrudes there at his peril.
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- "In the web of life every event has many antecedents.
Only by an arbitrary decision can we designate a single antecedent as "cause."
Our choice is biased - biased to protect our egos against the onslaught
of unwelcome truths. As T.S. Eliot put it in Burnt Norton:
- 'Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very
much reality.'
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- "Were we to identify overpopulation as the cause
of a half-million deaths, we would threaten ourselves with a question to
which we do not know the answer: How can we control population without
recourse to repugnant measures? Fearfully we close our minds to an
- inventory of possibilities. Instead, we say that a cyclone
caused the deaths, thus relieving ourselves of responsibility for this
and future catastrophes. "Fate" is so comforting.
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- "Every year we list tuberculosis, leprosy, enteric
diseases, or animal parasites as the "cause of death" of millions
of people. It is well known that malnutrition is an important antecedent
of death in all these categories; and that malnutrition is connected with
overpopulation. But overpopulation is not called the cause of death. We
cannot bear the thought.
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- "People are dying now of respiratory diseases in
Tokyo, Birmingham, and Gary, because of the "need" for more industry.
The "need" for more food justifies over-fertilization of the
land, leading to eutrophication of the waters, and lessened fish production
- which leads to more "need" for food.
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- "What will we say when the power shuts down some
fine summer on our eastern seaboard and several thousand people die of
heat prostration? Will we blame the weather? Or the power companies for
not building enough generators? Or the econuts for insisting on pollution
controls?
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- "One thing is certain: we won't blame the deaths
on overpopulation. No one ever dies of overpopulation. It is unthinkable!"
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- Hardin poked the population balloon with his razor-sharp
reality pin. Today, Bangladesh houses 144 million people in a landmass
the size of Iowa. Within 40 years, Bangladesh expects to add 144 million
MORE people in that delta region-total 290 million people living in a sardine
can of space! We can expect a monumental human disaster that will make
the recent cyclone in Burma look like a church picnic when it hits-and
it will hit. Do the Bangladeshi's possess a contingency plan? Yes! Allah
declares that they must have as many babies as possible. It's Allah's
will!
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- Does the United States possess a plan for the future?
Yes! We continue importing 180,000 to 200,000 worldwide refugees in the
form of immigrants into this country every 30 days, month in and month
out, year in and year out. Demographers expect the USA to add 100 million
people in 30 years and hit 1 billion within 90 years. Do you find that
comforting for your grandkids and your civilization?
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- As China, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Mexico and other
nations bumble and stumble into the 21st century, the citizens of United
States follow as if deaf, blind and dumb to the realities of their fate.
Will the projected 40 million added to California in four decades become
our "Burma Cyclone" or "Bangladesh's monsoon" or "China's
earthquake"?
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- Per Eleanor Roosevelt's sage advice, will Colorado and
America create a strategic plan to avoid those other countries' fates?
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- No!
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- Will Colorado and America suffer horrific environmental
consequences, countless American deaths and more misery than anyone can
imagine?
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- Yup!
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- Take action: <http://www.thesocialcontract.com/>www.thesocialcontract.com
; <http://www.numbersusa.com/>www.numbersusa.com ; <http://www.fairus.org/>www.fairus.org
; <http://www.frostywooldridge.com/>www.frostywooldridge.com
- To take action: <http://www.numbersusa.com/>www.numbersusa.com
- <http://www.thesocialcontract.com/>www.thesocialcontract.com
- <http://www.fairus.org/>www.fairus.org
- <http://www.proenglish.org/>www.proenglish.org
- <http://www.capsweb.org/>www.capsweb.org
- <http://www.vdare.com/>www.vdare.com
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- 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
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- 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
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- Listen to Frosty Wooldridge on Tuesdays and Thursdays
as he interviews top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting
the Dots" at www.republicbroadcasting.org at 6:00 PM Mountain Time.
Adjust tuning in to your time zone.
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- From: Frosty Wooldridge
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- 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.
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- Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's
Adam Schrager:
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- http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364&bw=
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- Kindest regards,
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- Frosty Wooldridge
- www.frostywooldridge.com
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