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Baby Boom Causing US Environmental Dilemma
By Frosty Wooldridge
8-24-10
In a cogent piece by gifted writer Julie Whitty, Marilyn Hempel, editor at www.PopulationPress.orgeducates readers at her website as to the accelerating dilemma of adding 77 million new babies to the planet annually. Hempel helps Americans understand their children's predicament and how to come to equitable terms with our civilization and the future.
Each year, 57 million humans die worldwide. At the same time, at 6.8 billion copulating humans, another 134 million babies take their first breath-for a net gain of 77 million new mouths to feed, house, clothe and create a meaningful life on this planet. The human race adds 1.0 billion every 13 years on its way to 10 billion at mid century.
Ironically while the United States enjoys a stable population since hitting ZPG in 1970, it added 100 million within 40 years via immigration. Today, through 'population momentum', the U.S. adds 1.0 million additional Americans annually even at 2.03 fertility per American woman. When you add another 2.1 to 2.4 million immigrants, the USA becomes the third fastest growing country in the world at 3.1 to 3.4 million annually, net gain.
In a compelling piece at Mother Jones News, Julia Whitty, wrote "Tiniest of Baby Booms: A Monster"
"You can't miss it in today's news: US births break record, 40 percent out-of-wedlock," said Whitty. "Frankly, my dear, who cares about the wedding bands? Though that's pretty much what all the moralizing is about.
"No, what's stupefying is the fact that nowhere in this much-traveled article does anyone ever talk about the real impact of more babies being born in the US in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history.
"So let's talk about it. And let's start with a really interesting study just published in the journal Global Environmental Change. A couple of statisticians at Oregon State University disengaged their mechanical pencils from their pocket protectors, clicked some fresh lead onto recycled paper (we hope) and came up with this bold analysis into that sacristy of human reproduction-to have or not to have:
A mother and father are each responsible for one half of the emissions of their offspring and 1/4 the emissions of their grandchildren and so on forever or thereabouts.
Therefore, under current US conditions, each child adds 9,441 metric tons of CO2 to the carbon legacy of the average female.
That's 5.7 times her lifetime emissions.
Translation: one child costs nearly 6 times your own CO2 emissions.
In the pessimistic scenario, each American child adds 12,730 metric tons to your carbon legacy.
In comparison, under current Bangladeshi conditions, each child adds 56 metric tons of CO2 to the carbon legacy of the average female.
"The bottom line is that absolutely nothing else you can do-driving a more fuel efficient car, driving less, installing energy-efficient windows, replacing light bulbs, replacing refrigerators, recycling-comes even close to simply not having that child. All those good things still add up to less than 500 metric tons of CO2 savings. Not having the kid saves between 10,000 and 13,000 metric tons of CO2.
"So why are we still giving tax breaks for having kids? Why are we pretending that because they're cute they're harmless? Little monsters."
Dear reader, the United States expects another 100 million people within 25 years. California adds 1,700 people daily along with 400 vehicles. Anybody see a problem with that? I do! It means another 20 million people in a blink of time.
Let me add to Whitty's work by saying that my own personal travels throughout the world on six continents horrified me into numbness while in my 30s. Once you see the results of overpopulation up close and ugly, you (I) do not want to see it manifest in the USA, and I would most certainly like to see leaders worldwide address it and we all solve it with birth control and family planning. Either we stabilize our human numbers gracefully or Mother Nature will step in rather brutally!
Contact Marilyn Hempel at www.PopulationPress.org or info@populationpress.org . By snail mail: Blue Planet United, POB 7918 Redlands, CA 92375
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