California Brush Fires Destruction - The Reasons Why
There are several reasons why every year in western states such as California, and Southern California, in particular, there are devastating brush fires.
One reason, in case you haven't noticed, most of the areas are dry. There is little rain. The vegetation that does grow naturally, burns easily and rapidly.
Next, government policies are to put out all small fires as soon as possible. That leads to an accumulation of unburned vegetation, which creates a setting for HUGE future fires.
The reason for putting out small fires is that people have built in the dry areas, and they don't want their stuff burned out.
Now, ask yourself, why do people build in dangerous areas? One reason is stupidity. Another reason is, "everybody has to live somewhere".
The ROOT reason is accelerating overpopulation. New population has no place to go except for more dangerous and undesirable locations. Is that so fricking hard to understand? Thanks to generations of uncontrolled breeding -- that is, thanks to people dropping litters of spawn with no more forethought than cats, rats, and dogs -- we have a catastrophic overpopulation problem.
As long as population keeps increasing, and is not REDUCED, the problems of fires in particular, and of the environment, energy, ocean fishery depletion... will continue to WORSEN.
Note to religious wackos - Catholics, fundamentalist Christians, Mormons, Muslims... "If you are against birth control and ABORTION, you are a f-ing idiot -- LITERALLY!"
Note to lefty loonies, environmentalists... "Whatever your cause, it is a LOST CAUSE without population control."
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Rampant population growth threatens our economy and quality of life. I'm not talking just about the obvious problems that we see in the news - growing dependence on foreign oil, carbon emissions, soaring commodity prices, environmental degradation, etc. I'm talking about the effect upon rising unemployment and poverty in America.
ReplyDeleteI should introduce myself. I am the author of a book titled "Five Short Blasts: A New Economic Theory Exposes The Fatal Flaw in Globalization and Its Consequences for America." To make a long story short, my theory is that, as population density rises beyond some optimum level, per capita consumption of products begins to decline out of the need to conserve space. People who live in crowded conditions simply don’t have enough space to use and store many products. This declining per capita consumption, in the face of rising productivity (per capita output, which always rises), inevitably yields rising unemployment and poverty.
This theory has huge implications for U.S. policy toward population management. Our policies that encourage high rates of population growth are rooted in the belief of economists that population growth is a good thing, fueling economic growth. Through most of human history, the interests of the common good and business (corporations) were both well-served by continuing population growth. For the common good, we needed more workers to man our factories, producing the goods needed for a high standard of living. This population growth translated into sales volume growth for corporations. Both were happy.
But, once an optimum population density is breached, their interests diverge. It is in the best interest of the common good to stabilize the population, avoiding an erosion of our quality of life through high unemployment and poverty. However, it is still in the interest of corporations to fuel population growth because, even though per capita consumption goes into decline, total consumption still increases. We now find ourselves in the position of having corporations and economists influencing public policy in a direction that is not in the best interest of the common good.
The U.N. ranks the U.S. with eight other countries - India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia and China - as accounting for fully half of the world’s population growth by 2050. The U.S. is the only developed country still experiencing third world-like population growth.
If you’re interested in learning more about this important new economic theory, I invite you to visit my web site at OpenWindowPublishingCo.com where you can read the preface, join in my blog discussion and, of course, purchase the book if you like. (It's also available at Amazon.com.)
Please forgive the somewhat spammish nature of the previous paragraph. I just don't know how else to inject this new perspective into the overpopulation debate without drawing attention to the book that explains the theory.
Pete Murphy
Author, "Five Short Blasts"
Pete - You're excused. Excellent post.
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