Sunday night, May 4, 2014, NBC’s anchor Lester Holt introduced Anne Curry for a report on Climate Change causing horrific wildfires, tornadoes, Category 5 hurricanes, rising seas, temperature changes, heat waves and worse for the future.
Anne Curry reported on climate change, but no mention of human overpopulation driving it. Nothing like ignoring the elephant in the kitchen as it stomps everything to smithereens: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/circus-high-wire-act-goes-wrong-n96886
She announced a special committee working to solve the Climate Change problem, but none of them mentioned that the human race adds 1,000,000 (million) of its kind every 4 days that equals to 80,000,000 (million) more of its (our) species annually, decade in and decade out with no end in sight. Curry failed to whisper a second sentence about human overpopulation driving our environmental calamities.
Reality check: The overriding, driving, undeniable force for Climate Change, titanic species extinction, accelerating destruction of the Natural World and dozens of other consequences facing all life on this planet—human overpopulation.
Overcrowded trains prepare to leave for the city after the final prayer ceremony of Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 15, 2012. Thousands of Muslims joined the Akheri Munajat, the final supplication as the first phase of the Muslims congregation concluded by seeking forgiveness and blessings for mankind on Sunday. (Photo by Andrew Biraj)
Why does the Main Stream Media, Scott Pelley, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Charlie Rose, everyone at NPR, the president, Congress, all 50 governors, all 100 US Senators, 435 Congressional critters and 319 million American citizens choose live in denial while their world degrades around them.
What more does it take? Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Sandy; Typhoon Haiyan; Sixth Extinction Session accelerating against millions of species going extinct; California wildfires; drought, desertification accelerating worldwide, polluted air over our cities; polluted rivers; nuclear waste; melting glaciers; carbon parts per million exceeded 400 ppm last year for the first in 10 million years; 18 million humans starving to death annually; massive human pile-ups in traffic and congestion in cities.
What in the devil does it take anyone with an IQ over room temperature to start screaming over the rooftops and into the cameras that, “Houston, we’ve got a problem!”
How can the leaders, media and citizens of a free society choose to be so dumb, so stupid, so inept, so in denial and so out of touch with reality?
The big five factors of denial of climate change, human overpopulation and accelerating consequences
First, capitalism allowed technology-dominated Western countries to rape the rest of the planet of oil, diamonds, metals, wood, rubber, minerals, marine life and everything needed to create “consumption societies.” Capitalism requires endless growth for endless people to create endless consumption. That factor created an “entitlement factor” sewn into the societal thread of America and other Western countries like Canada, Australia and Europe. In the past 20 years, that “factor” migrated into China, India, Mexico, Brazil and other consumption societies.
No one wants to give it up. They choose to ride the planet to its knees before giving up their wealth, cars, gadgets, homes and fossil fuel burning. The most powerful taboo of the 21st century remains any mention of the human overpopulation factor.
Second, ancient religions brainwash parishioners into a sense of privilege that God blesses them, looks out for them and that they are the chosen ones, and commands them to go forth and multiply. For example, in light of all the human misery, starvation and deprived living conditions for followers of the Catholic Church around the world (Haiti, Mexico, Africa), the Pope denounces any form of birth control. Thus, more babies mean more poverty, illiteracy and human misery. Islam, Buddhism and Hindu also encourage endless human population growth even 'though 18 million humans starve to death annually and another two billion cannot secure a clean glass of drinking water. Those religions mandate endless population growth to grow the money handed into the “tithing plate” every Sunday. Source: www.CounterCurrents.org
Ironically, since first world countries cannot “see”, nor do they experience, the accelerating aspects of overpopulation, they continue in “cognitive dissonance” of its ever happening to their countries.
Third, democracies promote free choice to the point of suicide of the planet. One couple in America, the Duggars, birthed 19 children in 22 years. The mother finally suffered the death of her 20th because of her 40+ age and failing egg vitality. Nonetheless, she champions “God’s” plan for her to have as many children as possible. Millions of others also feel that no one can stop them from birthing as many children as they choose. (Source: www.theDuggars.com)
In Africa, with its population at 1.1 billion, demographers expect the human count to reach at least 3.1 billion before the end of the century—most of it via tribal illiteracy, endless birth rates and heedless sexual practices. India adds 11 million, net gain, annually, with no end in sight as it overtakes China as the most populated country in the world by 2050. America, seemingly enlightened, expects to double to 625 million in this century, mostly by immigration from third world countries exhausting their excess populations into first world countries.
Ironically, China’s one-child policy faces world condemnation repeatedly, because everyone should enjoy the right to endless children. Mob ignorance triumphs via religion and uneducated cultures throughout the world.
Fourth, most average citizens of the world, including First World countries, go about their daily lives trying to make a living and hang on to whatever possessions, jobs and viability they possess today. They cannot “see” tomorrow or its surprises. I recently talked to a preacher in a church near me. When I spoke to him about my work on overpopulation in America, he said, “I had no idea that America suffers from an overpopulation problem.”
Americans saw Ann Thompson’s one-hour human overpopulation presentation in April, 2014, but it didn’t make a dent: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nightly-news/no-one-is-immune-study-offers-...
Fifth, as I witnessed in my world travels, most leaders of the world, like average humans not affected by the lion eating one of their kin, simply ignore the danger. They don’t think they will be the next to be eaten. The same goes for power-elites who smugly don’t think they will be affected by Climate Change or any other environmental problems.
Finally, from the eyes and experiences of a six continent world bicycle traveler who has journeyed from the Arctic to Antarctica—no one escapes Mother Nature’s wrath in the decades to come. She always bats last. Whether you understand Dr. Albert Bartlett’s brilliant “Arithmetic, Population and Energy” presentation, www.AlBartlett.org ; Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb; Dr. Jack Alpert’s www.Skil.org population presentation, Malthus’ equation; or another 100 books on Peak Oil, Climate Change, Species extinction, acidified oceans or the Sixth Extinction Session—all of humanity faces one hell of a nasty ride. And so, unfortunately, so do the creatures of our fellow species on this planet in the 21st century.
The only solution to save the human race in the 21st century: mandated one child per woman via birth control to compassionately decline the human race to a viable number for this planet to handle. We either accomplish this by our choice, or Mother Nature will brutally make the decision for us.
In the 21st century, humanity’s self-inflicted population numbers will prove more deadly and more treacherous than all the wars in the history of our kind. As a species, we remain too arrogant, too clever and too stupid to be left to our own devices. “God” won’t be kind to any of us.
Editor's note:
To: Frosty Wooldridge
Thank you for providing PAG with your thoughts on these two extremely important, interwoven issues of our time --- population and immigration. Our lack of a national or global recognition of their consequences has meant that their "benefits" are directed to different segments of our populations. This has been an effective way to establish and further their political value for some groups, but in our opinion it does not serve our national interest, and the numbers you cite strongly support this. - BA