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Dear Time Magazine editors: what was she thinking?

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When you hear “experts” discuss a topic, you expect them to “know” what they are talking about.  In this interview with Ertharin Cousin, she enjoys tremendous power in her position as head of the World Food Programme, but she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She lacks understanding of humanity’s dilemma.  She says that endless population growth can be fed with “innovations.”  That’s simply not true.  Therefore, I wrote a letter to Time. You may, too. FW 

Dear Time Magazine editors: [email protected]

Re: “10 questions: Head of the World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, on feeding millions, food security and foul-tasting cookies” Time Magazine, August 26, 2013

When asked the question, “Is there going to come a time when the planet can’t produce enough food for everyone?”    Cousin answered, “No. Humans are very innovative….”

Reality check:  at some point, no amount of innovation can feed endless human population growth on a finite planet. The Earth only allows a limited amount of fresh water and arable land.   With Peak Oil manifesting, humans cannot hope to grow enough food for accelerating human numbers.   Her statement shows gross denial of reality and the exponential growth equation.

In 2013, a total of 10 million children will die of starvation or starvation related disease around the world.  (Source: www.WHO.org )  That death rate occurs annually.  With the human race adding 1 billion people every 12 years on our way from 7.1 billion to over 10 billion by mid century,  those starvation numbers will accelerate.  As a bicycle traveler across six continents, I witnessed mass starvation firsthand. It can only grow worse as water, arable land, Peak Oil, desertification and environmental destabilization continue their onslaught.

Leaders must not mislead by making uninformed statements like Cousin’s.  We need to address starvation and food insecurity today while we still see 7.1 billion humans instead of pushing the numbers to over 10 billion.  Once oil runs out, and it will run out, humanity faces enormous starvation calamities that will prove irreversible and unsolvable.  She should have said, “We need to come to terms with stabilizing human population worldwide in order to provide food, water and housing for all humans who make this planet their home.”   Unfortunately, Mother Nature will solve Cousin’s erroneous statement as stated by Nobel Laureate Dr. Henry W. Kendall, “If we don’t halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity – and will leave a ravaged world.”  

Today, we enjoy a choice to stabilize human population by our own hand gracefully via birth control. At some point, that option will be ripped from our hands.

Kindest regards,

Frosty Wooldridge, 6 continent world bicycle traveler

722 Ridgeside Dr.

Golden, CO

www.frostywooldridge

Other quotes supporting my contention:

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 E.O. Wilson

“Unlimited population growth cannot be sustained; you cannot sustain growth in the rates of consumption of resources. No species can overrun the carrying capacity of a finite land mass. This Law cannot be repealed and is not negotiable.” Dr. Albert Bartlett, www.albartlett.org , University of Colorado, USA.

“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

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.”

“Somehow, we have come to think the whole purpose of the economy is to grow, yet growth is not a goal or purpose. The pursuit of endless growth is suicidal.”  David Suzuki

 

 


 



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