By Frosty Wooldridge
Re: "Political parties drill for blame in energy fight" by Mulkern/ 6/23/08
Don't you hate it when you read about stupid politicians promoting dumb ideas that continue dim-witted thinking that ends up with $4.00 a gallon gas?
The same kind of thinking equals $5.00 a gallon gas in a short amount of time.
Our president and Congress remain obscenely irresponsible to America!
They knew about this crisis decades ago.
Car manufacturers knew oil reserves depleted as humanity sucked and burned 85 million barrels of oil daily for decades.
Yet, they killed the electric cars, they stifled economy cars;
and, they promoted big V-8 engines with gas guzzling motors to bring on our energy crisis EVEN faster.
Worse, the American public, dumber than a box of gerbils on a spinning wheel-inanely and insanely bought into the bigger cars, bigger engines and less gas mileage paradigm until they found themselves in a Faustian dilemma.
Now, Obama and McCain continue with their political charade promising they will work for renewable energy, wind energy and bio-fuel.
What does that mean?
Answer: squat diddily nothing!
Anne Mulkern's excellent piece illustrated how downright dumb Obama and McCain's short-term, half baked band-aid solutions pretend themselves.
Our nation stands nostril-deep in an energy crisis that needs a whole new paradigm shift to save our civilization-but instead, we discover both candidates offer 20
th century solutions in the 21
st century.
Result: sure to fail!
Why?
Because solutions based on more drilling to find more oil won't work:
"As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we do this century, will the "civil" part of civilization survive?
As we both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain-selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid."
Walter Youngquist
What idea might work?
What new energy sources could work?
Why won't our leaders move out of old paradigms into new ones?
Answer: money, power and arrogant privilege of the power brokers!
Instead of killing and bombing Iraq into the Stone Age along with Afghanistan while we spend $12 billion every 30 days, we need to spend that $12 billion on photovoltaic technology to create infra-red and regular sunlight power grids perhaps two square meters to set on top of cars to power their electric engines.
The same power grids need to power our engines of industry. Or, hydrogen power, or something besides ridiculous 'bio-fuels' that cannot give us the per capita energy we obtain from oil.
As it is, we fail ourselves by burning oil, coal and natural gas until nothing remains.
Sunlight shines for another five billion years!
Yes, it might take two or three technology breakthroughs the size of the Manhattan Project to accomplish our intentions-but we will not succeed as we continue our war activities in those third world countries.
How about massive wind, wave and river turbine energy going to waste daily while we idle in traffic?
Why hasn't the Colorado River been harnessed with underwater turbines to catch all that power to provide electricity?
Instead of chopping down trees for paper bags and using massive quantities of oil for plastic containers-why hasn't Colorado and the nation engaged in a total recycling, 10 cent deposit/return law for all containers?
Why do we keep using up over 300 billion paper and plastic bags every year that hit our dumps along with billions of plastic and aluminum cans?
How short-sighted and stupid are we?
Only 30 percent of Americans recycle when economic incentives would encourage 98 percent recycling!
Finally, what did Ms. Mulkern and all other Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News journalist ignore-along with all other national journalists?
Answer: we cannot and will not remain a viable or sustainable nation if we continue adding 200,000 immigrants, which fill two Pasadena Rose Bowls every 30 days--month in and month out, year in and year out.
We cannot keep growing if we hope to maintain our civilization.
We must come to terms with a stable, non-growing and sustainable population.
"If present growth trends in population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth will be reached sometime in the next 100 years."
The Club of Rome 1972
Instead of waiting like a bunch of Blue Footed Boobies of the Galapagos Islands to be slaughtered without protest, how about raising our voices by demanding we enact a 10 year moratorium on all immigration both legal and illegal into this country.
Let's allow our stable and sustainable population to re-manifest in our nation.
Write Dean Singleton, John Temple and the rest of the top publishers in Colorado to get off their proverbial Barker Loungers by engaging in solutions instead of writing about consequences.
Folks, Colorado cannot afford adding six to 10 million more people.
The USA cannot sustain another 100 million people added in 30 years.
It's time for a change and your voice must be the change agent.
The most ignored and greatest issue facing Colorado and the world in the 21
st century remains overpopulation.
Let's talk about it!
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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet.
Go to
www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years.
Our 'window' to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we ignore the symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
To take action:
www.numbersusa.com
www.thesocialcontract.com
www.fairus.org
www.proenglish.org
www.capsweb.org
www.vdare.com
Final note: I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates to add to my monthly "Master Mind Think Tank." In reality, our politicians foment the problems that they campaign to solve. They never solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos. I need new ideas and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto the front burner: overpopulation in America caused by ceaseless legal and illegal immigration. As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years. We need to stop it and we need to stop it now. Join me in saving our civilization.
frostyw@juno.com
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
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on "Your Show" May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life.
In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a "Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy"; "Colorado Environmental Impact Policy"; "Colorado Water Usage Policy"; "Colorado Sustainable Population Policy". Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:
http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364
Frosty Wooldridge
www.frostywooldridge.com