By Frosty Wooldridge
Re: Colorado NPR report—11.5 billion gallon shortage annually predicted, 12/1/09
Colorado Public Radio announced on Monday, 12/1/09, that Colorado faces grave water shortages in the coming decades. We can expect an 11.5 billion gallon annual shortfall. With predicted population growth of five to six million by mid century,(Source: Fogel/Martin “US Population Projections”) this state cannot and will not be able to maintain water supplies for humans let alone animals and cro…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on December 2, 2009 at 2:02pm —
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By Frosty Wooldridge
The United States steams into the 21st century along the same course, metaphorically, as the RMS Titanic—at high speed, featuring arrogance and little to no turning or stopping power. Beaming with prestige as the greatest ocean liner of its time, the date, April 14, 1912, provided its Achilles Heel.
In the 21st century, the USS United States, loaded with 309 million passengers, plows into this new century at high speed and arrogantly picks up 3.1 million new passengers an…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on November 23, 2009 at 2:16pm —
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By Frosty Wooldridge
In this ongoing series with Dr. Jack Alpert, we hope to educate, enlighten and activate American citizens toward a sustainable future. In all great social change, it takes an educated citizenry to create “consciousness shift” which moves to “critical mass shift” that ends with a paradigm shift via “tipping point.”
When you look back on history, the good things that made your life better started with the Magna Carta for human rights. From there, humans fought and died to es…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on November 23, 2009 at 2:09pm —
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Cap and trade? Will it work? Not a chance! Screw in a mercury, curly-cue bulb to save electricity! Will that stop carbon emissions? Sorry! Drive a Prius for greater fuel efficiency? Only delays the inevitable! Add more lanes to Los Angeles’ freeways to solve gridlock? That’s like a four hundred pound man facing a heart attack—unbuckling his belt to allow more room for his bulging belly. That’s a tragic choice!
“TEMPORAL BLINDNESS is a limitation in cognitive process. Peopl…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on November 23, 2009 at 2:08pm —
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Immediate release:
Public welcome to attend--
Program: THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Speaker: Frosty Wooldridge; author of the book: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Location: CU campus, Boulder, CO
Specific location: Hellems Arts and Sciences building, Lecture Hall 201, southwest corner on second floor.
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Parking: pay parking on campus
Contact: frostyw@juno.com or Professor Paul Weisma…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on October 29, 2009 at 3:46pm —
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Pare 3: Waiting until you’re in the crisis
Christopher Steiner, author of $20 PER GALLON, paints a sobering picture for our civilization. He’s not alone. You may view this 86 minute compelling film “Blind Spot” by Adolpho Doring and Amanda Zackem: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/blind_spot/
I couldn’t take my eyes off the movie as I watched it three times. Once you see that documentary, you will understand exactly what Steiner, Bartlett, Catton, Tainter, Brown, Bradfo…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on September 23, 2009 at 9:21am —
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Part 2: A book review
Chris Steiner’s book, $20 PER GALLON, methodically illustrates how American society, in fact, world societies will change as the price of gasoline inevitably rises to $20 a gallon. Many may scream, “What about the 100 years of reserves in the Bakken Fields, or the ocean floor off of Alaska and more fields in the Gulf of Mexico?”
Again, emotions and sheer hearsay drive such hopeful myths. You may call the author a cretin, but the coming rises in the pr…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on September 23, 2009 at 9:15am —
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Part 1: A book review
At one time, as a kid, I flipped a dime to the cashier to watch Vincent Price scare the heck out of me at a movie. I pulled out a nickel to pay for a Snickers candy bar. I bought a hamburger for 15 cents. I bought a school lunch for 35 cents. When I hit 16 with my ‘57 Chevy, I paid 29 cents a gallon of gas. I gobbled popcorn for a dime while I watched John Wayne in Rio Bravo.
On my office wall, I enjoy a picture titled “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” dep…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on September 23, 2009 at 9:13am —
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BY Frosty Wooldridge
Re: Denver Political Issues Examiner ; Our misguided population growth paradigm: accelerating consequences, July 15, 2009
So far, 1,000 emails plus responses hit my website and nearly 50 on the Examiner website responding to my interview with Dave Gardner www.growthbusters.com . Amazingly, many understood, but many wrote in a ‘fog of emotion’. Some think that the human race enjoys the entire universe to continue expanding.
One fellow thought the USA could hold two billion…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on September 2, 2009 at 2:05pm —
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Published in Denver Post August 18, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Each day, I scratch my head, purse my lips and stare out the window from 8,000 feet above Denver, Colorado to view that city spread in all directions for as far as the eye can see. Above it, a gargantuan Brown Cloud—loaded with toxic air pollution expands all the way to the eastern horizon. Off to my left, I-70 provides a 24/7 automobile traffic conveyor belt moving into and out of Denver. At night, I watch the I-25 north/south corri…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on September 2, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Denver, Colorado--Last night, in the Mercury Café on California Street, a meeting took place that will change the future of America. Dana Miller, head of www.transitioncolorado.ning.com, introduced documentary film director, Dave Gardner, to an eager audience. He strode to the stage with the confidence of a man filled with the knowledge of his years and the understanding of his mission.
On Gardner’s website, www.growthbusters.com, you may enjoy a film clip with Billy Cryst…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on July 15, 2009 at 12:16pm —
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Denver, Colorado--Channel 9 News anchor Cheryl Preheim announced Sunday night, July 5, 2009, that traffic through the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 set new records or near-records for holiday travel. An astounding 47,200 plus cars rolled through the tunnel in one day on a return trip from the 4th of July holiday.
However, since I happened to be one of those folks traveling through the tunnel, you might appreciate, as the late Paul Harvey once said, “The rest of the story!”
By…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on July 7, 2009 at 9:26am —
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Re: “Conservation among keys to coping with water woes” by Mike Stark, AP Writer, Salt Lake City, Utah
In a recent Salt Lake Tribune piece, "The West is hurtling toward a water crisis"; www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_11417265: “Overpopulation will be the major factor in the destruction of Utah, the second driest state with the fastest growth rate with the highest birthrate.” Spokesman Bernard DeVoto said, "The future of the West hinges on whether it can defend itself against it…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on June 19, 2009 at 8:10am —
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With an added six million people by mid century, Colorado faces a daunting future when the question of water trickles into the picture. Notice how much rain and snow fell on the Front Range this winter? Not much! Why? We live in a semi-arid region. That’s why you see few trees anywhere on the Great Plains of Colorado.
In a Denver Post exclusive, “Water plan hits wall of foes,” March 9, 2009, by Mark Jaffe, “Shell oil wants to pump 15 billion gallons from the untapped Yampa…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on June 19, 2009 at 8:00am —
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Vince Carroll, Denver Post columnist, wrote a compelling piece, “A tax on plastic bags? Bag it”, in today’s editorial section. Thank him for bringing up the issue of plastic versus paper bags for shoppers. Both bags represent horrific waste and environmental denigration.
We need to move out of 20th century of waste and abuse—and create a new paradigm of cotton bag use. I own four cotton bags I have been using for groceries for 28 years. They’re a bit tattered, but those ba…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on June 19, 2009 at 7:54am —
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Published in the Denver Post:
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/blog.php/2009/05/25/you-cannot-make-gridlocked-traffic-better-by-adding-two-million-people-to-denver/
By Frosty Wooldridge May 25, 2009
Re: “Transported to the Future” LTE’s Denver Post, 5/24/09
Readers responded to “Future Denver” published May 17, 2009, with a variety of solutions for improving gridlocked traffic. The article started off, “What will it take to improve traffic in the metro area?”
Mark Koebrich on Channel 9 News…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on May 25, 2009 at 9:48am —
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Published in the Denver Post:
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/blog.php/2009/05/25/you-cannot-make-gridlocked-traffic-better-by-adding-two-million-people-to-denver/
By Frosty Wooldridge May 25, 2009
Re: “Transported to the Future” LTE’s Denver Post, 5/24/09
Readers responded to “Future Denver” published May 17, 2009, with a variety of solutions for improving gridlocked traffic. The article started off, “What will it take to improve traffic in the metro area?”
Mark Koebrich on Channel 9 News…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on May 25, 2009 at 9:45am —
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by Frosty Wooldridge
"Eye-opening, incisive, brilliant! The U.S. has the fastest growing population of any industrial nation, and one of the world's highest consumption rates. Water, topsoil, forests, fish, petroleum... the more of us, the more pressure we exert on our environment. Many discuss our personal consumption patterns, but few dare talk about the underlying crisis of population growth. Wooldridge is one of the few courageous voices warning us about the implications of our current dire…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on May 7, 2009 at 12:51pm —
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Documentary movie review: part 2 of 2
Hundreds of responses poured into my computer concerning the movie documentary, BLIND SPOT, www.blindspotdoc.com. It’s amazing how millions can look at a steam locomotive bearing down on them and continue walking on the tracks away from the train so they won’t see it when it runs over them.
And so we find ourselves in our own Blind Spot as a civilization. Since it’s not happening to us right now, such as Hurricane Katrina hasn’t reach…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on April 16, 2009 at 12:47pm —
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Documentary movie review: part 1 of 2 parts
As human beings continue their destructive rampage around the planet, they find themselves facing accelerating dilemmas on every continent. No one can deny quickening traumas facing humanity in the 21st century. Humans spew billions of tons of toxic air into the atmosphere while they plasticize the oceans, cut down the forests and tamper with nature’s environmental balancing systems.
A full third or two billion people lack adequa…
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Added by Frosty Wooldridge on April 16, 2009 at 12:44pm —
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