October 10, 2007

Emagazine: Balancing Act Still Relevant

A seven-year old cover story still relevant?  Yes, just as Thomas Malthus' Principle of Population [1798] still is relevant.  

Those who discounted Malthus, just as those who think that an ever-growing population is consistent with environmental protection, are being proved wrong. How strange that some of the strongest proponents of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States are Democrats.

But the pro-immigrant Democratic Party wrapping itself in the green mantle of environmentalism is no stranger than the Sierra Club, the original greenies, who abandoned their philosophy of stable population and little immigration when David Gelbaum waved a $100 million check.  

The Democrats have sold out both environmentalism and working Americans who compete with immigrants for jobs and public services. The Sierra Club has only sold out the environment. 

Money talks. The result is that the goals of diversity, multiculturalism, and undermining the cultural moorings of the United States will be served.  

So much the better for Democrats if the public buys their double-speak.  They are helped in this deception because Republican President George W. Bush has also sold out to the crowd that puts the interests of the United States way, way down on the priority list.


Balancing Act

Can America Sustain a Population of 500 Million -- Or Even a Billion -- by 2100?


by Leila Cabib
E Magazine

Nov.-Dec. 2000

Science fiction writer David Brin set his 1990 book Earth in 2038. Writing before the consequences of global warming were generally known, Brin imagined an overcrowded world of 10 billion people that had been inundated by rising sea levels. Holes in the ozone layer make any trip outside life-threatening, and even livestock wear eye covers. Siberia is tropical, and Bangladesh's capital is underwater. The last wildlife is housed in zoo-like "arks," and private cars have been outlawed in favor of bicycles. A glass of pure water costs as much as the monthly rent, and jail time is ordered for anyone throwing away a soda bottle. [more]

 

 

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