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Part 30: The 7th billion human on Earth—Letter from the Future

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By Frosty Wooldridge

Part 30: Boomers’ last chance; letter from the future

In October of 2011, the 7th billion human being will land on this planet.  From that threshold, humans will continue multiplying by 1.0 billion every 13 years to reach more than 10 billion within 39 years at the mid century.  The ramifications stagger the mind of any thinking American.  This series will give you an idea of what our civilization faces. 

This continuing series brings you, a concerned American, more information on what this civilization faces and what we can do to change course toward a viable future for our children and all living creatures.

As of October 2011, the United States at 312 million, steams full speed ahead toward 100 million additional people by 2035—a scant 24 years from now.  How do you feel about that number in light of water shortages, food costs, energy availability, quality of life in our cities and a host of environmental dangers?

While our situation may be sobering, you enjoy the option to change the future by your actions today.  Join the websites below to make impact.  Everything you do counts!  Everything you avoid doing—counts likewise!

Peak Everything: Waking Up to a Century of Declines By Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers,   ISBN-10: 086571598X ,   ISBN-13: 978-0865715981, www.postcarbon.org; www.richardheinberg.com

“In his bestselling book, The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw extolled the virtues of the American men and women who grew up in the Great Depression and fought in World War II,” said Heinberg. “…as a result, their children have enjoyed the most extended and exuberant period of affluence in the history of any nation.”

So much so, we also created the most catastrophic environmental degradation, species extinction, crowding in our cities and other disparities ever known to humanity!  While Americans drive HUGE SUV’s that consume 22 million barrels of oil 24/7, and live in relative luxury—around the planet, 18 million humans starve to death annually while 3.0 billion subsist on less than $2.00 per day. Americans as well as the Chinese and most Western societies ravage third world countries for metals, minerals, oil and gems.

On the one hand, we enjoy unimaginable luxury even for the poorest in America—and on the other, astounding human misery.

“This generation practiced ‘diachronic competition’, that is, competition with future generations, more ruthlessly than any other since the dawn of our species,” said Heinberg. “The implications are devastating.  A good case may be made that my generation, because it so threatens the perpetuation of its kind and the survival of countless other species, is the worst ever.”

While Heinberg talks about America, I watched similar circumstances erupt all over the globe.  Today, India and China work 24/7 to ‘be like America’ in wealth, industrial might and power.  They gobble resources at an alarming rate of speed.

James Howard Kunstler, in his The Long Emergency, reports that China expects to burn 98 million barrels of oil daily by 2030.  How? They build and place on their highways 27,000 new cars net gain weekly!  Reports last year showed them trying to untangle a 60 mile long gridlocked traffic jam.  Look it up on Google!

Why do you think 98 million barrels proves astounding? We burn 84 million barrels daily all over the planet in 2011 each day!  No chance for them to extract that oil in the light of Peak Oil!  Something will have to give!  Answer: their whole civilization will collapse!  Don’t be smug! So will ours!

What amazes me: how on Earth do the Chinese think anything will improve as they add eight million people net gain annually?

At one point in the 70s, President Jimmy Carter told Americans that they would have to adjust their material way of life in order to keep their freedoms. But no one listened!

As of late, Chris Steiner wrote a book, $20 Per Gallon, where he researched Peak Oil, and guaranteed Americans that gas would rise to $10, $15 and ultimately $20 per gallon within two decades or sooner.  Without a doubt, our freedoms will most definitely be restricted.

Yet, we keep growing America’s population like that 1,810 pound pumpkin that some Wisconsin farmer featured on the Jay Leno Show in October.  “This pumpkin grew by 40 pounds a day,” the farmer said.

What do you do with a civilization that adds 3.4 million every year while water, resources, oil and ability to grow food diminish? What does that civilization do when it adds another 100 million?

Do you notice no one asking those ‘heavy’ questions?

“But there was never broad public discussion of the real issue that will impact our lives in the next few years—the generation that grew up expecting always more will soon be faced with less,” said Heinberg. “The nation, now hallucinating uncontrollably from toxic exposure of Fox News, is in debt to the point that no conceivable decision made today will prevent a devastating implosion of the U.S. economy, especially in the view of impending oil and gas peaks.”

THE FUTURE

“In the decades ahead we will be going through hell,” said Heinberg. “But the only alternative to accepting the fact is to live in denial until the reality is inescapable and our room for maneuvering is even more restricted than it has already become…we boomers have stolen much from the future generations; the main question remaining is, can we now give them back at least the possibility that they might build the world we once dreamed of?”

At the end of his book, Heinberg writes a letter from the future back to citizens living today. He talked about hopes of preventing the “Die-off”; “The Pruning”; “The Purification”; or “The Cleansing.”  He said, “Some terms are more palatable than others, but there really are no nice ways to describe the actual events—wars, epidemics, famines.”  Aka, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—war, disease, pestilence and famine.

At the end, Heinberg throws a ‘dental floss’ line of hope toward the reader with web sites and actions each can take. Ever the optimist, he might engage the best and brightest of our generation and the present generations to take action.  We can only hope!

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In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation.  Take five minutes to see for yourself:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE&feature=player_embedded

 

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart by Roy Beck

This 10 minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a word “Mind boggling!”  www.NumbersUSA.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

 

This is the best website to start:  www.numbersusa.org ; watch Roy Beck’s “Immigration by the Numbers” at 14 minutes. Bi-partisan and very effective. Become a faxer of pre-written letters to your reps to make positive  change.

 

Visit www.TheSocialContract.com for the best information on what we face as a civilization as to overpopulation, energy, immigration and much more.

 

Canada www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ; in Australia www.population.org.au and[email protected]; in Great Britain www.populationmatters.org ; and dozens of other sites accessed at www.frostywooldridge.com.   In Florida, www.flimen.org .

Must see DVD: “Blind Spot” 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-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWduFB_RX0

 

Must see and funny: www.growthbusters.org ; www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXSTrW_dARc
Dave Gardner’s Polar Bear in Bedroom:

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

 

Check out this link with Wooldridge on bicycle and Lester Brown and panel discussion:

www.upnorthmedia.org/watchupnorthtv.asp?SDBFid=1631

 

Tomorrow’s Americaproject on www.youtube.com/contemporarylearning.

Producer: GEORGE A. COLBURNwww.tomorrowsamerica.com

DC: 202-258-4887

 

Email: [email protected]

Link to www.tomorrowsamerica.com for more discussions on America’s predicament.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

www.starbrightmediacorp.com

www.tomorrowsamerica.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 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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