America galloping toward its greatest crisis in the 21st century

May 22, 11:03 AM
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By Frosty Wooldridge

The United States gallops headlong into its greatest crisis early in the 21st century. At current growth rates, America expects to add 100 million people by 2035—a mere 26 years from now. Ironically, you hear nothing about it! Not one word from the main stream media! No alarm bells sounded by political leaders!

You might think that George Will, Jim Hoagland, Thomas Friedman, Ellen Goodman, Froma Harrop and the brilliant Kathleen Parker, all incredible national columnists would turn their mighty quills to THE greatest issue facing America and the world in the 21st century. You would expect Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Jim Lehrer and Charles Gibson to speak up. You would appreciate NPR’s Robert Siegel and Liane Hanson to ramp up the discussion. How about President Obama or any of our 50 governors? But instead, silence!

While mountains of evidence and symptoms of overpopulation erupt in TV news reports and newspapers, the general public continues its daily nonchalance with indolent disinterest. No matter how many water shortage reports, climate change indicators, mass species extinctions or air pollution stories you read about, America blissfully adds 3.2 million people annually. Another 77 million humans add themselves, net gain, to the planet annually and 1.0 billion add to the globe every 12 years.

The population issue accelerates at Warp 9, but it cannot be sustained. Religious and cultural interests push it ever faster. Capitalism drives it with gusto. Money begets power and power drives the money.

While I write many columns about our accelerating dilemma, hundreds of articulate and totally out of touch writers blast at anyone that might write a cogent piece on hyper-population growth. They write with passionate emotions that overpopulation is a New World Order myth or that the ‘Illuminatiâ€