Humanitys Predicament: Too Many People To Sustain Civilizations

By Frosty Wooldridge

Each day, the United States adds another 8,100 people, net gain, to its already overpopulated 315 million citizens.  Each year, America adds another 3.1 million on its way to adding 138 million more people by 2050—a scant 38 years from now. 

Each day, the world population adds another 240,000 people, net gain to total 80 million more starving and desperate humans on the planet, annually.  Every 12 years, humanity adds another 1 billion people on its way to 10.1 billion in 38 years.  The environmental damage caused by such numbers staggers even the simplest of minds. 

“The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct.  To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.”  Harvard scholar and biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson

Each day, Americans and all humans on six continents face less water, less arable land, less energy, less resources and less food.  They face more starvation, more wars for resources and more misery on a scale unheard of in history—yet, humans keep chugging up their numbers as if no tomorrow will come.  They keep burning gas at 84 million barrels per day and billions of tons of coal as if they can deluge the planet with their carbon output with no consequences. www.350.org

Lester Brown, author of Plan B 4.0 Saving Civilization said, “The world has set in motion environmental trends that are threatening civilization itself.  We are crossing environmental thresholds and violating deadlines set by nature. Nature is the timekeeper, but we cannot see the clock.”

Few understand and most do nothing.  Leaders avoid, evade and ignore the human population juggernaut.  All to everyone’s peril!  Denial remains the easiest and most potent method for ignoring what we face in the very near future, i.e., more Katrina’s, more Sandy’s, more tornadoes, more droughts and more starvation for humans. BTW, the World Health Organization documents 18 million humans suffer death through starvation annually. Those moribund numbers will rise as humanity’s numbers rise.

“Most Western elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide [that adds 80 million net gain annually to the planet], but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all—ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.” Dr. Otis Graham, Unguarded Gates

Since it’s difficult to “imagine” these catastrophic conditions nationwide, you may educate yourself and others with the following videos. Dr. Jack Alpert brings humanity’s plight to logical and understandable reality.  In his three brilliant videos, he spells it out. 

Jack Alpert          PhD: Director: Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory
http://www.skil.org                
 

Additionally, for the United States, these two videos by Roy Beck, www.NumbersUSA.org will bring America’s plight into graphic reality.

The good news: you can join www.NumbersUSA.org to become part of an army of Americans who care about the future of their children, our environment and sustainability.

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

If you are living in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia or all of Europe, these videos pertain to you and your children.  Overpopulation will become the greatest dilemma facing humanity in all of history.  Either we solve it gracefully, or Mother Nature will solve it brutally.   We must call for all leaders of the world to address human overpopulation. We must call for human population stabilization.

If  not, Mother Nature will presume that you chose to increase your numbers beyond her ability to feed, water, warm, house and transport your numbers.  Once you do that, she will act swiftly, without mercy and with deadly intent.  Mother Nature always bats last.

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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.  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:

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