



By Frosty Wooldridge

Overpopulation in Canada will prove THE single greatest issue facing Canadians in the 21st century. Continued population overloading degrades your environment, standard of living and quality of life. It shreds natural animal habitat creating mass extinctions, degrades water systems and accelerates global climate destabilization.

Nothing good can come from endless Canadian population growth! Scientists and environmentalist warn of our approaching predicaments as to “Peak Oil” ; “Peak Water” ; “Peak resources” ; “Peak Animal Extinctions” ; and “Peak Climate destabilization” –SO evident in areas like Australia, Brazil, China and many other places now being swept by uncommon storms.

“We must alert and organize the world’s people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises – exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.” Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Oceanographer

Several Canadian writers that promote endless population growth engage the fallacy of, “The real challenge is in improved management and sharing of dwindling resources and the skilful maintenance of a stressed environment. “ Fat chance to skillfully ‘guide’ storms like Katrina or what hit Brazil last week!

Harvard scholar and biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson reputes that naïve statement with:

“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.”

Canadian leaders and citizens may ignore such environmental problems, but those accelerating predicaments will not ignore anyone in Canada—plant, animal or humans. I find it irresponsible at the highest levels when journalists promote endless population growth, or that they think things will be ‘all right’ when the human race levels off at 9.2 billion in 40 years. We currently add 1.0 billion humans every 13 years.

They neglect to talk about massive destruction of Earth’s climate systems along the way. They refuse to address in excess of 80 to 100 species suffering extinction DAILY around the planet. (Source: Oxford University professor Norman Meyer, UK) They fail to understand water shortages and water contamination by human abuse of the environment via population growth. They lack understanding of such disastrous phenomena as the three million tons of floating plastic in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” west of Vancouver from humans tossing 2.5 million pieces of plastic every hour around the globe into the oceans. Marine life deaths and contamination run into the millions.

They ignore that such civilizations as China, India, Mexico and Bangladesh suffer enormous problems ‘because’ they failed to stabilize their populations 50 years ago. Once manifested, all their citizens suffer the misery of human population overload.

Why? Why would Canadians run themselves into a Faustian Bargain that leads to Hobson’s Choice? Why sell your souls for immediate gain but long term loss for your children. Why race toward Hobson’s Choice where you enjoy only two choices. Door number “1” allows you to walk through it and over a cliff. Door number “2” allows you to walk through and into quick sand. What’s the point of committing Canada to such a horrific future already manifested by two to three billion people around this overcrowded planet?

Canadians must ask themselves whether or not they can keep immigrating themselves into Hobson’s Choice and why.

“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

Every Canadian reading this column will be nodding his or her head right about now. I write about reality and common sense. I write about what I have seen around the world in my bicycle travels. I can state unequivocally, Canada does not want to repeat what China, India, Mexico and Bangladesh did to themselves, not now, not ever. Canadian citizens warrant a sustainable and environmentally balanced future.

At some point, we need to consider our fellow creatures on this planet:

“Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth’s carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I’m afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.” Daniel Quinn

Canadian citizens need to speak up for Canada’s future, for its children, for it wilderness, for its animals and for its viability. It needs to lead by example, not by promoting endless population growth that leads to endless consequences on multiple levels. Canadians either make choices today or severe and harsher choices will be made for you in the future.

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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 word “Mind boggling!” www.NumbersUSA.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ

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. In 2010, he pedaled a 7th time coast to coast across the USA. 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 He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715





