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Frosty Wooldridge
More About: EnvironmentPART 2: WHAT CONSTITUTES OVERPOPULATION IN AMERICA? EXCEEDING CARRYING CAPACITY
Little
known and always avoided, the United States faces THE single greatest issue of
its existence in the 21st century.
“What is it?” you ask. Top
environmental experts respond, “Overpopulation!” We ignore, evade and suppress this issue at
every level in America. Innumerates as defined by Dr. Albert Bartlett,
(www.albartlett.org), insist we can grow
forever without any consequences. Citizens
pursue their daily tasks without understanding the ramifications of this
civilization adding another 100 million people within 25 years, and doubling to
600 million people within 60 to 70 years.
(Sources: PEW Report, Fogel/Martin “US Population Projections”, U.S.
Census Bureau)
This “Human Katrina” advancing on our
civilization deserves more than a wink and a nod. It desperately needs
attention by our leaders and the media.
Why do they avoid it? It could be
fear or lack of education or, it’s ‘out there’ in the future so they don’t have
to address it.
Since another 25 years will skate past in a
blink, we need to address it today in order to prevent its manifestation in two
decades. Basically, the faster our
population rises, the greater the calamities accelerate as exposed in this
series.
It all boils down to ‘carrying capacity’. A glass carries only so much water. A
restaurant seats a limited amount of patrons.
An airplane can hold exactly a limited number and not one single added
person past the number of seats on the plane.
Why? Because of finite space or
limits.
The Earth remains finite. Therefore, it carries a limited amount of
space. At some point, no matter how much
humans fool themselves, they must come to terms with limited water, soil,
oceans, food, energy, air and resources.
CARRYING CAPACITY IN THE UNITED STATES ALREADY EXCEEDED
In 1970 or
before, we began exceeding our energy carrying capacity as our population hit
200 million. Peak Oil as defined by the “Hubbert
Curve” indicated that the USA would drop production from nine million barrels
of oil daily, to less than three million barrels. That’s exactly what happened.
Today, we produce about 2.6 million
barrels of oil a day and import about 70 percent of our oil, or about 16 out of
22 million barrels daily. Clearly, we
exceeded our energy carrying capacity
forty years ago. Not to mention our ‘carbon
footprint’. (Source: www.350.org )
That same “Hubbert
Curve” created by famous geologist M. King Hubbert, shows that the entire world
oil supply today has peaked or will peak within a few years. In other words, no
matter how many wells we drill, we cannot extract more oil. In fact, it takes
more energy units to extract oil that we utilize once the oil arrives on the
surface than the oil delivers.
"Our
ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know," said M.
King Hubbert.
We
face daunting challenges being ignored as we grow our population along with the
rest of the world adding 80 million more annually.
"The cheap oil age created an artificial bubble of plentitude
for a period not much longer than a human lifetime....so I hazard to assert
that as oil ceases to be cheap and the world reserves move toward depletion, we
will be left with an enormous population...that the ecology of the earth will
not support. The journey back toward non-oil population homeostasis will not be
pretty. We will discover the hard way that population hyper growth was
simply a side-effect of the oil age. It was a condition, not a problem
with a solution. That is what happened and we are stuck with it."
James Howard Kunstler
If you think ‘
technology’
will save us; think again. Nothing on
the horizon can equal the energy density of oil. As we use it at 82 million barrels a day, we
make a Faustian bargain with a Hobson’s choice for a final curtain call.
In
order to drive cars, boats, planes and fuel industry, Americans use 20 million
barrels of oil daily while the rest of the world burns 62 million
barrels. That equals 82 million barrels of oil every 24 hours!
When
you multiply 365 days by 82,000,000 barrels of oil burned daily, it equals a
whopping 29.9 billion barrels of oil annually.
If
you remember your science, it took two billion years to produce all the oil on
this planet. In other words, when oil reserves decline, we exhaust the
single major energy source that drives our civilization and most other
societies on this planet.
To
show how much energy oil provides the U.S. annually, Michael Brownlee of www.transitionbouldercounty.org
provided an astounding graph of one cubic mile of oil. That’s how much oil
humans burn around the planet each year!
That equals to the same amount of energy provided by 52 nuclear power
plants built every year for 50 years or 104 operating coal-fired electrical
plants built every year for 50 years or 32,000 wind turbines built every year
for 50 years—and in continuous operation—or 91,250,000 solar panels built every year for
50 years.
“As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now
to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this century, will the
“civil” part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way
that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we
enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps
this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our economic
souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has
to be paid.” Walter Youngquist
We need not do this to ourselves. We can change course.
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Roy
Beck’s 2010 update to his Immigration Gumballs video -- “Immigration,
World Poverty and Gumballs” -- reached 100,000
views in two days. It’s headed for 10 million.
This five minute video educates and it ROCKS! www.NumbersUSA.com
If any of us, no matter what our race, creed
or color might be, refuse to engage our U.S. Congress as we have not for 30
years as to the population/immigration equation—our children will find
themselves living in a terribly degraded America where the American Dream will
be described by the history books as a ‘fleeting fantasy’ from the era of 1950
to 2010.
These are several of the top organizations
where you can take collective action to change the course of American history
as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Take collective action at www.numbersusa.com with over 1.0 million
members that fax pre-written letters to congressional reps. Quick, easy, highly
effective. Watch the movie “Immigration
by the Numbers” for a complete understanding of what our civilization
faces. Download off the site. Bi-partisan, free and efficient.
www.fairus.org
; www.capsweb.org ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org
; www.populationconnection.org
; www.quinacrine.com ; www.familyplanning.org/ , www.skil.org ; www.growthbusters.com ; www.populationpress.org
; www.thinkpopulation.org ; www.carryingcapacity.org ; www.balance.org ; www.controlgrowth.org
; in Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org
; in Australia www.population.org.au
and PublicPopForum@yahoogroups.com
; in Great Britain www.optimumpopulation.org
; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.
Must see DVD: “Blind Spot” http://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-
Must see and funny: www.growthbusters.org ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
Dave Gardner’s Polar Bear in Bedroom: http://growthbusters.org/2010/03/save-the-polar-bear-in-your-bedroom ; 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
Dave Gardner’s Polar Bear in Bedroom: http://growthbusters.org/2010/03/save-the-polar-bear-in-your-bedroom ; 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
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 He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100
Million Americans. Copies
available: 1 888 280 7715
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1 Comments in Response to PART 2: WHAT CONSTITUTES OVERPOPULATION IN AMERICA? EXCEEDING CARRYING CAPACITY
Let's stop this nonsense about overpopulation scare written by intellectual ignoramuses that make people sick in their stomach. Read my latest antidote to make you feel better:
Immigration
The Rape Of Exponential Growth Theory By Scare-Mongering Overpopulation Roughnecks
EGT, short for Exponential Growth Theory, is raped by overpopulation fear-mongering roughnecks whose intellectual libido derives pleasure like child molesters do when they throw their weight on top of the innocent gullible public. Dr. Albert A. Bartl Read Letter
Letter to the Editor: Written by bakadude
Date of Letter: 2010-10-16
Reference cited in the letter: Sumcad's powerful Essay published in his Straight Light:
"How Exponential Growth Theory Is Sodomized"
Written by Edwin A. Sumcad
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
- Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, Advisory Board Member, World Population Balance.
“The worst tragedy of humankind is our ability to understand the wonder of exponential logarithm in procreation and used it to commit genocide to stop population growth in a delusional attempt to save the world.” Edwin A. Sumcad, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations [development economists, also known for his published works as a writer-philosopher].
The Encarta English Dictionary describes the word sodomy as “an offensive term for anal intercourse” … a very unusual way of making love among God’s promiscuous creation since Adam and Eve started the first procreation in the animal kingdom.
If since then the exponential growth of mankind can be compared to a flirting maiden in the world of science for intellectual seduction, overpopulation fear-mongers had brutally raped it from the time Reverend Thomas Malthus wrote his first book: “An Essay on the Principle of Population”. The idea behind this obscene recreation of the human specie was to produce only a limited number of people below the world’s fertility rate that would inhabit the planet.
In this sexual analogy of the world’s unusual demographic anomaly, what the exponential growth rapists wanted to produce were just a limited number of “sustainable” bastards that should not out-eat existing food supply, out-consumed our resources and out-occupy our extra or reserved space anywhere in the four corners of the earth.
The justification for this fatherly anomaly was that our world is finite and our resources only increase arithmetically, i.e., 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, while population multiplies exponentially, i.e., 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ad infinitum! The conclusion was the world will end if population explodes exponentially!
Of course it is indisputable that this anti-population argument is full of ugly holes, just as its proponents Rev. Thomas Malthus has been so mean-spiritedly discredited by his peers that his reputation was punctured and his image disfigured badly. His draconian view was so myopic -- it proceeds from a one-track mind, which failed to consider new scientific discoveries, as well as the rapid technological advances of civilization that could make food production and available space limitless! Our geographical world may be narrowly considered finite, but its sustainable capacity to accommodate and feed humankind is without doubt, infinite!
But this is how the Exponential Growth theory was sodomized by scientists with an unusual love-making fantasy of reproduction and/or human procreation in a delusional attempt to save the world. http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/exponential-growth-tutorial/bacteria-three-new-bottles.html.
If you click on this link, you will see that these mal-practicing scientists took a thick bottle of glass and put a bacterium in it to see to it that it does not escape. Time: 11:00 o’clock. You need a microscope to see the minute bacterium. The bottle represents the finite world, the bacteria represent the population that grows exponentially. [Carefully now, take note of this statement that I underscored.]
Let’s use some of their own words in describing the experiment blow by blow.
Since the bottle filled up at 12:00 o’clock, the bottle must have been half full of bacteria just about 30 seconds before, the other half additional increase jumping up to fill up the bottle in just another 30 seconds.
Now imagine what the experimental raping scientists were saying, that “just before 12:00, we bring in THREE MORE BOTTLES.” It is here: http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/exponential-growth-tutorial/bacteria-three-new-bottles.html.
At 12:02, all four bottles are full!
Citing this observation as an example, they are now talking about not enough energy for mankind to consume. So they started saying that, quote: This is like the bacteria [in the experiment] discovering bottles to grow in consumption, no amount of new energy will meet our needs for more than a few years. The only permanent solution is to STOP GROWING [by killing the bacteria]… unquote.
This is where the scientific sodomy of exponential rapists occurs: They violated the credibility of their experiment when they brought in 3 more additional bottles in the experiments. In real life, there is only one Planet Earth where humans live. There are no 3 additional worlds for humans to inhabit. In this sodomized experiment, the human beings represented by the exponentially exploding bacteria inside the bottle, have no four bottles or four worlds to live.
Here is the truth about this botched experiment that those scientist rapists of exponential growth theory had willfully ignored: If they let the exploding number of bacteria stay or all of them remained confined inside the bottle [after all there is only one bottle or one planet we live in – not four], the Law Of Diminishing Return will subject their increasing volume to what Dr. Barklett described as “population balance”. What this means is that the overcrowding bacteria will bang their head against the harder walls of the glass bottle trying to get out, or fight to death against each other for space, etc. and in the process, those that survived are injured and/or too weak to live any longer and they just perish. In real life, these are war, famine, pestilence, etc. that checked and/or brought down runaway population growth to a manageable level.
In the UN, I once said this in a speech delivered in the Plenary Session of ESCAP [Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific]:
“The worst tragedy of humankind is our ability to understand the wonder of exponential logarithm in procreation and used it to commit genocide to stop population growth in a delusional attempt to save the world.” Ed Sumcad, Deputy Permanent Representative to UNESCAP.
© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad.
P.S. Thanks, Ed. Anyone feed up of this overpopulation scarecrows may also come out with their piece to stop this immigration-population explosion sickness being spread by retarded intellectuals. Bakadude.