Part 5: Series On Overpopulation In Americaoil created a 100 year window thats closing
By Frosty Wooldridge
Part 5: Quotes that make impact on America, running out of energy, oil, coal
“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, The Long Emergency www.kunstler.com
Top experts around the world understand that the energy slave called “oil” faces exhaustion within the next 40 years, if not sooner. Along the way, drilling for oil will prove more difficult, harder to extract and more costly.
Fact: everything in America and most Western civilizations runs on oil. Oil allows billions of people to eat via tractors and harvesters of massive croplands. Without oil, 315 million Americans could not feed themselves and 7.1 billion humans around the planet would face enormous die-off. We humans cannot possibly plant and harvest enough food by hand to survive at 7.1 billion of us. We couldn’t pump the aquifers to irrigate crops. We couldn’t transport food fast enough by boat, donkey or oxen.
That’s the problem. Oil will run out sooner or later. Nothing on the technological horizon can replace it. 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.
(Processing crude oil creates unrelenting air pollution, carbon particulate and acid rain. Imagine millions of smokestacks pouring black soot into the air 24/7 and you breathe it. As China races toward 1.5 billion people all driving cars, you can imagine the environmental devastation of the natural world.) Photography by www.DreamsTime.com
In his book, The Long Emergency, Kunstler discovered that China, at its current growth rate and placing 27,000 new cars on its highways every week, will burn 98 million barrels of oil per day by 2030. That’s more than the world burns daily in 2013. That means a whole lot of human beings will be screwed when oil supplies dry up.
Along this fossil fuel burning path, we create enormous carbon footprint overload in our biosphere. We also acidify our oceans making life deadly for all marine creatures. Acid rain destroys soil-nitrogen balance. In other words, it’s going to get ugly worldwide on multiple fronts.
(Pumping and processing crude oil wrecks havoc on the natural world. Oil pumping destroys the land for centuries with oil-soaked soil. Sickening isn’t it? ) Photography by Ed Burtynsky
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.
Alternative energy won’t save humanity
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.
In other words, oil produces dramatically incredible amounts of energy that we cannot and will not be able to duplicate in the coming years.
Dr. John Tanton, publisher of The Social Contract at (www.thesocialcontract.com), authored, “How Many is Twenty Million?”
“In this age of millions, billions and trillions, it’s hard to understand such numbers,” Dr. Tanton said. “Twenty million is the number of barrels of oil we burn in the United States each day.”
That’s 42 gallons to each barrel (drum) at 30 inches tall and 20 inches in diameter, or 840,000,000 gallons burned per day. It calculates, according to Dr. Tanton’s figures, to three gallons of oil per day per person in the USA. (Source: The Social Contract, winter 2004-05, page 151)
He said, “Suppose we took 20 million barrels and stood them side-by-side. How long a line of barrels would that make? Let’s do the math: 20 inches/barrel multiplied by 20 million barrels equals 400,000,000 inches. Divide that by 12 inches/foot, and you get 33,333,333 feet. Divide that by 5,280 feet per mile, and that comes out to 6,313 miles.”
Dr. Tanton computed a string of barrels, “…reaching from Seattle to Los Angeles (1,157 miles), from Los Angeles to Chicago (2,134 miles), from Chicago to Miami (1,377 miles), from Miami to New York City (1,281 miles), and from New York City to Cleveland (486 miles). Total mileage, 6,435!”
“That’s how much oil we burn in the USA each day,” Tanton said. “The total global consumption daily rate of 82 million would be four times this amount, or 25,000 miles—the circumference of the globe at the equator!”
Dr. Tanton asks a sobering question, “How much longer can this go on?” The simple, unadulterated answer is: not much longer! You may want to read, Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, physics professor at California Institute of Technology.
(Imagine millions upon endless millions of miles of highways loaded with cars all burning gasoline and diesel 24/7. Imagine you breathe all that polluted air. Imagine what it will be like when American adds another 100, 200 and 300 million more people and cars. Imagine how the planet will react to another three billion more people burning fossil fuels by 2050. Sick yet?) Photography by Ed Burtynsky
Another scientist, Dr. Richard C. Duncan, introduced the Olduvai Theory: The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge.
The decline of the industrial civilization is broken into three sections:
- The Olduvai slope (1979–1999)—Energy per capita declined at 0.33 percent per year.
- The Olduvai slide (2000–2011)—Begins in 2000 with the escalating warfare in the Middle East… marks the all-time peak of world oil production.
- The Olduvai cliff (2012–2030)—Begins in 2012 when an epidemic of permanent blackouts spreads worldwide, i.e. first there are waves of brownouts and temporary blackouts, and then finally the electric power networks themselves expire.
(Americans wear out nearly 300 million tires annually. We throw them into huge dumps or burn them into the atmosphere. Imagine another 100, 200 and 300 million added Americans burning all that oil and burning up all those tires. Ever wonder what Mother Nature plans for us with all this abuse?) Photography by Ed Burtynsky
“We will discover the hard way that population hyper-growth was simply a side-effect of the oil age,”said Kunstler.
Instead learning a very harsh lesson bearing down on our society like a brakeless freight train, what can you do? As you become more educated and sobered to America’s population predicament, the logical question jumps up in front of your face: what can I do to help change course?
We must stop endless population growth. We must work toward stabilizing America’s growth to live within the carrying capacity of North America. We cannot keep importing 7 out of 10 barrels of oil daily and think we will survive. We cannot keep importing millions upon millions of immigrants. Ultimately, we face collapse and a whole bunch of ugly scenarios.
If you would like to make a difference, please join these organizations for the most effective collective action you can take: www.CapsWeb.org ; www.NumbersUSA.org ; www.TheSocialContract.com ; www.Fairus.org
Join me, Frosty Wooldridge, with Dave Chaffin, host of the Morning Zone at 650 AM, www.KGAB.com, Cheyenne, Wyoming every Monday 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., as we discuss my latest commentaries about issues facing America. You may stream the show on your computer. You may call in at: 1-888-503-6500.
##
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 few words, “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
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 ; Trailer to his latest movie on overpopulation: http://youtu.be/KLWxWOcUrVc
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:
Alexandra Paul talks about human overpopulation and saving our world by all women having 1 child only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNxctzyNxC0
One planet, one child:
http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/content/one-planet-onechild
===================================================
We must come to terms with birth control and stabilizing human population. This three minute video brings the terror of India’s predicament up close and personal by Paul Winn of Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZKd_Jvf2_c
This film will rock you: MOTHER: CARING FOR 7 BILLION
Dr. Jack Alpert , www.skil.org
|
Too Many People Video series How Much Degrowth is Enough? “NEW” Sept. 2012 |
##
Important books to read and educate yourself:
Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation, edited by Philip Cafaro and Eileen Crist, 2012
The World Without Us,Alan Weisman 2007 A scholarly research on how the Earth will fare after Homo sapiens are gone.
Man Swarm, and the Killing of Wildlife, Dave Foreman 2011 Mankind as locusts.
Take Conservation Back, Dave Foreman, 2013
The Long Emergencyby James Howard Kunstler, what America faces when oil runs out.
Overshootby William Catton
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeedby Jared Diamond
Peak Everything: Facing a century of Declinesby Richard Heinberg
Plan B, 4.0, Saving Civilizationby Lester Brown
The Population Fixby Charles C. Hartman
America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americansby Frosty Wooldridge
##
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as eight times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. In 2012, he bicycled coast to coast across America. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis facing America: what to do about it.” www.frostywooldridge.com. His latest book is: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, copies at 1 888 280 7715/ Motivational program: How to Live a Life of Adventure: The Art of Exploring the World by Frosty Wooldridge, click: www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com
Live well, laugh often, celebrate daily and enjoy the ride,
Frosty Wooldridge
Golden, Colorado
www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com
6 Continent world bicycle traveler
Order these unique cards today: http://www.howtolivealifeofadventure.com/
Anyone can join.
Anyone can contribute.
Anyone can become informed about their world.
"United We Stand" Click Here To Create Your Personal Citizen Journalist Account Today, Be Sure To Invite Your Friends.
Please Help Support BeforeitsNews by trying our Natural Health Products below!
Order by Phone at 888-809-8385 or online at https://mitocopper.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST
Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomic.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST
Order by Phone at 866-388-7003 or online at https://www.herbanomics.com M - F 9am to 5pm EST
Humic & Fulvic Trace Minerals Complex - Nature's most important supplement! Vivid Dreams again!
HNEX HydroNano EXtracellular Water - Improve immune system health and reduce inflammation.
Ultimate Clinical Potency Curcumin - Natural pain relief, reduce inflammation and so much more.
MitoCopper - Bioavailable Copper destroys pathogens and gives you more energy. (See Blood Video)
Oxy Powder - Natural Colon Cleanser! Cleans out toxic buildup with oxygen!
Nascent Iodine - Promotes detoxification, mental focus and thyroid health.
Smart Meter Cover - Reduces Smart Meter radiation by 96%! (See Video).
| Online: | |
| Visits: | 1,599,863,445 |
| Stories: | 8,140,475 |
Whistler Blowers, Insiders
God said “go forth and multiply.” Frosty says, “don’t go forth and multiply.”
God is somebody. Frosty is nobody.
God has the power to purify the earth and has promised he will.
Frosty has no power and can’t think because he has no brain. He just proved it with a five-part series of know-nothing baloney.
Anon: You fit this definition to a T.
The First Basic Law of Human Stupidity asserts without ambiguity: always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. At first, the statement sounds trivial. Closer scrutiny reveals its veracity. No matter how high are one’s estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly startled by the fact that: people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. Additionally, day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one’s activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments. (Source: Carlo M. Cipolla, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley)
There you go, quoting an Economics professor on the subject of stupidity. Might as well quote a registered sex offender on the virtue of chastity.
Here we go again with the sky is falling overpopulation myth. The panicked old, white-skinned elites see their control over society faltering. Why they keep harping on this subject is puzzling, because these monsters have it all planned in their bio labs, weapons labs, and with the coming economic collapse. They will eliminate several billion souls. Then they will spend eternity incarcerated in a cesspit with their exalted leader.
This is just more eugenics in disguise — part of the blueprint for shutting down an open society. Genocide’s just around the corner, folks — justified because we are so desperate.
I agree that society is addicted to progress and proliferation is sending us hurtling toward oblivion. It is irreversibly exponential. The state of *innocence* has disappeared — we can’t undiscover all our discoveries — we can’t unscramble these eggs. The leeway or margin has been lost. We face a cataclysm to be sure. More and more things are going wrong at a quickening pace.
I get all that.
However, murder the *extras* trying to solve the problem and you will see an exponential profusion of evil which will wipe out every living thing. If the bad is bad enough, it will doom the entire system. Call it the curse of the Curse — reaping the consequences of what we’ve sown.
But who do you expect will volunteer to step up to the plate to be sent into the blue yonder to ease the situation so selflessly for others? Not many? So who gets to chose? You, the Great and Mighty Oz? ahahahaha…
Toffler: “Trends are unstoppable but we can survive.”
The synergy contributes massively to energy flow: population promotes exploitation of petroleum, and the exploitation of petroleum promotes population, and both promote energy flow. The fouling of the terrestrial, hydrospheric and atmospheric commons are side-effects with grave consequences, the gravest and most imminent of which is climate change:
http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/
Compared to that, the rest is a sideshow. Some will survive but billions will not.
We can seize dread by the throat and experience The Ridiculous Dream of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Or we can stay on our present course and listen to all the pompous men trying to justify why the Muslims or the Jews or the Christians or the starving Messicans or the infirm Fukushimans or Cipolla’s Stupid People are too many and need to depart the planet.
If we did that, all we’d have left would be the pygmy-souled pragmatic materialists swinging Heil.
If we keep aborting babies, inserting infertility and disease agents into our humanitarian vaccines, practicing birth control, and carrying out genocidal policies, then maybe these “humanitarians” are correct. We will have a population control problem. Because we could very likely eliminate the next Einstein or similar genius who might have the answer to increasing food supplies, eliminating disease and moving civilization forward with advanced economic and political systems.
Their economic model has more to do with human suffering than actual birth rate. But the prime directive is to continue accumulating wealth and control into the hands of fewer and fewer “illuminated superior race” elites. Their only hope is more control and more death. Nice folks.
But hey, their national security schemes drive this paradigm. They must be right, at least in their own demonic minds.
The synergy contributes massively to energy flow: population promotes exploitation of petroleum, and the exploitation of petroleum promotes population, and both promote energy flow. The fouling of the terrestrial, hydrospheric and atmospheric commons are side-effects with grave consequences, the gravest and most imminent of which is climate change:
http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-update/
Compared to that, the rest is a sideshow.
The population is only on the ride the deciders in league with the middle men provide for them. (let the reader discern the politics …) We’ve sold our souls for the sake of *convenience.*
The populous now buys polyester skivvies and all kinds of plastic shoes, furniture, fences, food, baby bumpers, bags, ad infinitum. Those *things* have been molded into imitative shapes of the sustainable things they formerly used. Now truly sustainable goods are only available at higher prices which the vast majority can no longer afford.
The shift has been incremental. I remember when polyester was soundly rejected in the 70s. But no one today remembers why. It’s been made too cool to reject. The population has a chance if they reject oil-based and genetically altered goods and demand sustainability. Otherwise they are left with estrogenic products which mess with their endocrine systems.
When they looked at the middle east oilfields with dollar signs in their eyes, the PTB sold the populous a bill of crap boogeymen so they could exploit and corner the markets. The resultant ecological disaster is what ensued — not based on demands by populations — but on social connectivity markets driven by profit.
We know that our jewel of a planet has the ability to heal itself. Populations are beginning to wake up and wise up. But not enough soon enough. Let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs — The Racketeers.
Li’l ol’ grannies are a whole lot smarter than loveless college professors and Wall Street CEOs give them credit for.
Peace.
~*~