Time To Say “Zero”—Hurricanes Hammer Home Immigration-Driven Overpopulation
The
traffic gridlock as an estimated
two million people tried to escape Hurricane Gustav
made a powerful point: overpopulated
is the new normal—so that we no longer recognize the
evidence in front of our eyes.
(Same for
California
which is forcing me and other Californians to buy
expensive water-efficient appliances as I write).
A few decades ago, the
USA
had half the number of residents (i.e.
150 million in 1950 versus
305 million now). And evacuations were not a big
deal. If a big storm was headed your way, you could
easily hop in your car and dash off at the last minute.
No longer. These days, you have to leave 2-3 days
before landfall to travel out of the threatened areas
(hoping to find gasoline on the way), rent a motel for a
few days or stay with friends/relatives before you
repeat the process in the reverse direction.
Figure several days or perhaps a week of disruption
if you are lucky and your home isn`t badly damaged.
That`s a lot of time and money. More people jammed
into the region make a bad situation worse. But, typical
of American governing class complacency, Texas
Department of Transportation spokesman Marc Shepherd put
an upbeat spin on Gustavian travel conditions:
"We`ve planned
this so that those traveling should be able to go at
speeds of 15 to 20 miles per hour, instead of 5 miles
per hour that has happened in the past." [In
Houston, residents wait and watch,
Houston Chronicle,
August 31, 2008
The late science writer Isaac Asimov remarked,
"Democracy cannot survive overpopulation."
Freedom, in the sense of moving about when and where one
wants, can`t survive it either.
The 2005 evacuation of
Houston
ahead of Hurricane Rita was a particularly ugly scene:
"As they joined a
vast, traffic-snarled exodus from
Houston
and the upper
Texas
hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Hurricane Rita
were stuck in their cars throughout much of Thursday,
with many running out of gas and sweltering on roadsides
in 100-degree heat as they waited for authorities to
bring them gasoline…
“Houston`s
mayor acknowledged that the pre-hurricane evacuation
preparations, which some Texas officials had been
boasting about earlier this week, had gone awry, in
part, because too many people attempted to flee the city
at once." [Thousands
Fleeing Rita Jam Roads From Coast
Houston
has experienced
enormous growth, from 1.36 million in 1960 to 4.2
million in 2000. (Immigration-driven—of the latter
number, over
26 percent speak Spanish at home.) It is the
country`s
fourth-largest city. Its continued engorgement bodes
poorly for future evacuations.
Hurricane Gustav blew in at a Category 2 rating, less
deadly than Katrina. In addition, the various levels of
government appear to have learned from their earlier
bonehead mistakes.
Prevention is a fine concept. It assumes intelligence
and foresight. As Enoch Powell observed in his great
1968 immigration speech:
"The supreme
function of statesmanship is to provide against
preventable evils". That sentiment ought to be
engraved over the marble doorway to Congress.
If only we could apply it to the immigration realm.
But instead,
hard for its
overpopulation-on-steroids policy through recent
amnesty attempts.
As it happens, new numbers from the king cruncher has
revealed
population machine to be much more severe than
previously thought.
According to the newly
revised Census projections, by 2050 an
additional 135
million persons will occupy this land.
That`s the equivalent of 3 1/2
Californias added—but without any additional
beaches, mountains or redwoods.
[Peter
Brimelow adds:
let`s
distrain on Baja!]
As Steve Camarota suggested in
How Many Americans? [Washington
Post,
all the
new stuff required to equip the additional residents
is dizzying to contemplate.
"An increase of 135 million people by 2050 is equivalent to the entire
populations of
Mexico
and
Canada
moving here. Assuming the same ratio of population to
infrastructure that exists today, the
United States
need to build and pay for 36,000 schools. We would need
to develop enough land to accommodate 52 million new
housing units, along with places for the people who
lived in them to shop and work. We would also have to
construct enough roads to handle 106 million more
vehicles.
“Here`s another mental exercise: imagine the entire population of WWII
America—135
million in 1942—added to the current one in just
over four decades. In numbers alone, this is a radical
transformation, and entirely negative from an
environmental perspective of conserving forests and
farmland, as well as maintaining clean air and having
enough water."
Of course, many of those new millions won`t be
anything like the
“Great Generation”—remembered now for their heroism
and sacrifice—but will be foreigners who only come for
the
money.
Unapologetic Hispanic invader
Jorge Ramos has openly bragged,
"Latinos are not
only the largest minority right now, but eventually we
will be the majority in the
United States
process is well underway."
He`s boasting about conquest—not about friendly
assimilation to American culture and language.
The
"diversity" ideology pitched by elites and the MSM
was just a stalking horse for
Mexicanization. So not only is our society becoming
vastly more crowded and less free because of the
"growth"
which business worships, but we must share our
disappearing space with people who
don`t like us or
our values.
You might think that the most extreme transformation
facing
entire history would have come up for discussion in the
presidential campaign. Not so much. Both candidates want
to avoid an issue they see as a loser—because they
support the amnesty agenda but know that Americans,
across the political spectrum, do not.
In politics, when elected officials have allowed a
thorny problem to grow into a full-blown crisis, they
often stop talking about it, and the press is generally
happy to play along. The uninspired reports in the MSM
about the revised Census projections had
little follow-up to speak of.
America
future is a train wreck we can see coming. But we can
avoid it.
As citizens, we have a right and a duty to speak up
about the sort of country we will bequeath to our
grandchildren.
The new Census horror show makes it even more
imperative: the number
Zero must be placed on the public policy table.
Brenda Walker (email
her) lives in
LimitsToGrowth.org and
ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She misses the
late Senator Gaylord Nelson`s thoughtful questions about
the environment, e.g.
"With twice the
population, will there be any wilderness left? Any quiet
place? Any habitat for song birds? Waterfalls? Other
wild creatures?"
