THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS'
PART 20

 

 

 

By Frosty Wooldridge
February 8, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Taking it to the limit

How far down a broken glass-filled path would you travel if you were barefoot? How long could you eat contaminated meals before you suffered food poisoning? How far could you travel in the desert without water? How long would you last driving your car 100 miles per hour in a 40 mph zone in a city? How far are you willing to take anything to the limit?

As we add 100 million people to America by 2040, how far will this nation continue growing past its limits? Consider today we already suffer the following consequences before we add the next 100 million people.

40 percent of America�s rivers and 46 percent of its lakes are too polluted for fishing and swimming in 2007.

With the few examples above, do you see the picture? Do you see where the United States is headed? Population drives our land use and development.

�Carrying capacity� is the amount of land it takes to sustain a given species.

In 1997, the world exceeded its ecological carrying capacity by 39 percent which equals 2.3 billion people. That explains why 2.3 billion humans live in misery, suffering and human degradation.

Population-energy expert Dell Erickson brings a more sobering aspect of carrying capacity and �ecological footprint�. He said, �If the world�s average ecological footprint in 1997 were the goal, the result would be that the world could support 3.5 billion inhabitants. The UN currently projects the world�s population at 2050 to be nine to ten billion. In order for that population to maintain long term sustainability, the highest average possible living standard would be an �ecological footprint� approximately .8 percent�about the living standard and footprint of today�s profoundly unfortunate Ethiopia.�

Would you like to live at the standard of living of present day Ethiopia just because you have no other choice?

If we take this next added 100 million Americans to its logical conclusion, every consequence noted in this series multiplies by 100 million. That�s on top of the fact that another three to four billion people will be added to the globe. Once they arrive, they won�t vanish. They will impact everything.

The most astounding aspect of what�s happening to the United States stems from national denial. It pulses through our president, Congress, governors and citizens. Environmental groups like Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Audubon, Natural Resources Defense Council, Blue Bird Society and dozens more try to �save� animals, land and habitat. All their work means nothing when they won�t address overpopulation. They�re wasting their time, money and efforts. Nothing will be solved if our population dilemma isn�t solved.

Once we double to 600 million, we�ll grow toward 1 billion. India and China proved they could do it. Bangladesh proved it could cram 129 million people into a landmass the size of Ohio. They took it to the limit; however, their societies allow the least human dignity, freedom and opportunity. They suffer so many consequences they can�t solve them. Thus, their citizens live in a kind of living lockdown.

How far can we explode, speed and trample our country by taking our population to the limit? Why do we want to take it to the limit when we know the limit grows deadlier by the day? If these questions continue being ignored, our children will be forced to live with the results.

Therefore, what is your responsibility to the future? Every time I turn around I hear, �I want to see my kids to have a better life than I did.� If we allow this next 100 million people added to this country, your children don�t stand a chance for a better life.

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