Even though many Americans think Barack Obama will save America, Frosty Wooldridge still sees major problems that need to be fixed. Wooldridge blogs, "Even with the election of Barack Obama, we Americans stand in the cross hairs of ominous social and environmental change in the early years of the 21st century. Each day, media reports stream into major networks as they expose ‘symptoms’ erupting across the planet. Water shortages, ozone pollution, species extinction, gridlocked traffic, energy crisis and other calamities dominate the news.
With so many events hammering us from all angles? Who can we believe? What’s really going on? Who gets down to brass tacks to explain it all?"
In her recent blog Rochelle reminisies about the struggles she went through during Hurricane Ike and the lessons she learned. "Well," she blogs, "it is a little a bit after 1a.m. in the morning here in Houston and within 24 hours I will be back home in Aspen. Sorry no blogs for awhile as It has been a bit busy here. Since Hurricane Ike hit the American Red Cross opened over 241 client shelters where they sheltered over 212,000 people, the American Red Cross also served over 3.6 million meals plus had over 160 mobile feeding units and the American Red Cross opened 22 staff shelters. So as I stated I have been very busy. When Ike hit I was hunkered down in Ft. Worth and I ended up being a shelter manager in Arlington where I dealt with gangs-then I was moved to Houston where I was in charge of coordinating staff for the shelters in Houston, Baytown, Anahuac, Angleton and Galveston. A week ago the Fort Worth and Houston headquarters merged and jobs changed and I ended up assisting various departments. I did get a day off and I visited my 83 year old great-uncle who hunkered down in Houston while Ike hit-he did well over all-he had minimal damage on his apartment building-however he did sustain a fall and had some bruises-his spirit though is full of spunk and we laughed allot during my short visit. "
You can feel it in the air. A winter storm warning for the Elk Mountains may bring accumulations of 6 to 12 above 9,000 feet.
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Aspen, Colo. , Nov. 18, 2008—Aspen Sports has teamed up with SnowSports Industries America (SIA) to offer Aspen residents with a place to recycle their old ski and snowboard gear for free for three days only—Nov. 28-30 from 9 am to 6 pm. at the Aspen Sports shop on Cooper Street . This offer is for residential recycling only. There is no charge for dropping off old gear but Aspen Sports will be adding $2 to the purchase of every pair of skis, boots, and snowboards to help offset the costs of recycling. However, buyers who don’t wish to support the new recycling effort can opt out of the charge.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2008
By Frosty Wooldridge
Re: “Dry, Drought, Devastated” Pankratz/ 9/17 Denver Post
When you realize humans kill 100 million sharks in the planet’s oceans annually, you scratch your head in dismay, or, at least, consternation. Unknown to most humans, thousands of species suffer extinction at the hands of humanity annually. (Source: Life, August , 1991, “Sharks: Predator becomes prey” Fussman)
When you read startling headlines in the Denver Post announcing devastating drought, you scratch your mind further as to why humans steam forward as if they cannot be touched by nature’s vengeance. What do we possess in our arrogance as to denial of our own vulnerability in the scheme of life?
At a Gamow lecture at Colorado University, Boulder, Colorado, I listened to a lecture by Oxford University professor Dr. Norman Meyers. He explained his personal research in the Amazon and other rain forests around the world that humans cause the extinction of 50 to 100 species every day of the year. I didn’t think much of it until, I too, visited the Amazon.
Humans burn 1.5 acres every second in the Amazon and worldwide to make way for crops in the shallow soils of the rain forests. What forms the foundation of the Amazon rain forests? Answer: sand dunes! Note that the Amazon rain forests took millennia to cover those dunes with minimum topsoil. Once exhausted, farmlands become wastelands.
As I explored the Amazon, I watched roads being built into its interior all the way to Manous on the Amazon River. I saw firsthand the fires and the relentless cutting of huge trees. Animals and plants lose their homes at a rate of a landmass the size of Colorado every year. No wonder Myers reported 100 species suffer extinction daily!
Back in the United States, famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson states, “We cannot save the planet if we don’t understand it.”
I might add that we cannot save our planet home if we fail to stabilize human population growth. But never mind, because in the end, Mother Nature WILL stabilize human population growth, rather brutally.
In an excellent report, Mark Matousek, “Rescuing Earth” said, “The man widely considered to be Charles Darwin’s heir wants to build an ark, a virtual one at that.”
“It will be the greatest scientific achievements of the 21st century,” Wilson, 79, said. “We need this information about our world in order to save it.” Wilson expects to identify earth’s creatures in his “Encyclopedia of Life.” Estimates project 30 million species inhabit this planet.
While Wilson’s quest promotes noble intentions, first of all, humans rampage across the planet with devastating results to our ecological systems, but in the end, we cannot ‘save it’. A harsh reality faces humanity: this planet can and will erase humans without shedding a tear or issuing a burp!
The sad aspect of our destroying the environmental foundation of the planet in the past 100 years: we drive the sixth extinction session of millions of fellow creatures by our irresponsible fecundity.
“Scientists agree that the world has entered the first great extinction to be caused by humans,” Matousek said. “Global warming, deforestation, abuse of arable land, and destruction of natural habitats threaten to wipe out half the species of plants and animals on the planet by the end of the century.”
Wilson said, “Half the world’s plant and animal species could be extinct by the end of the century.”
As someone who witnessed massive kill-off of species in the Amazon, I direct your attention to a movie starring Sean Connery: “Medicine Man”.
By viewing the movie, you may see the species loss by their habitat cut and burned into oblivion. Not discussed in this sixth extinction session, you might consider what I call the “cascade effect”. For an example, in the United States, prairie dogs suffer horrific destruction of their colonies via human development. In states like Colorado, that slaps asphalt and concrete on 100,000 acres annually, those rodents vanish overnight.
When prairie dogs die, 67 other species, which depend on the rodents, also suffer decline and extinction. Voila! “Cascade effect”!
By not taking time to identify earth’s biodiversity, “It’s like a doctor trying to treat a patient knowing only 10 percent of the organs,” Wilson said.
As a scientist, Wilson suffers the slings and arrows of the Committee Against Racism and religious groups, but his scientific integrity remains unquestioned.
If humanity expects to flourish into the 21st century, it must take action with its intellect rather than its emotional and religious paradigms that prove outdated, outmoded and irrelevant. E.O.Wilson leads the struggle to bring about a viable future on planet Earth.
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Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.
To take action: www.numbersusa.com ; www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.Capsweb.org ; www.vdare.org ; www.proenglish.org ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.patriotunion.org
Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.
Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com
From: Frosty Wooldridge
This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.
Click the link to view the 3 minute interview with NBC's Adam Schrager:
http://www.9news.com/video/player.aspx?aid=52364
Frosty Wooldridge
www.frostywooldridge.com
September 18th, 2008
Linda Chavez noted in that national column carried by major newspapers nationwide, that by 2042, the United States transforms from a majority nation to a minority dominated nation. She said, “Hispanics, Asians and blacks will outnumber whites by 32 million…but so what?”
Continue Reading September 4th, 2008
A question for today’s class: in the history of television advertising, has any private citizen ever ponyed up $50 million-plus for the greater good of the American people, with no strings attached?
The answer, of course, is no—not ever—maybe because it’s just not the American way. There’s always an angle to be had, most especially when we’re talking about oil.
This just in: as the chief bottle-washer at both a radio talk show and blog called “Con Games,” I consider it my particular duty in our unprecedented republic to keep a close eye out for the con, especially when it arrives right here in my adopted hometown of Aspen, where I keep my first, second, and third homes.
Thus T, Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil man who has now turned his attention to the Pickens Plan (pickensplan.com), an energy revamp that will accelerate our wing-flapping when it comes to wind—ramping it up to 20 percent or so starting with Sweetwater, Texas, and then points north—and cleverly deploying the freed-up capacity to replace imported oil with natural gas in the transportation sector. The goal, as he said in Aspen last week: to fix “our $700 billion problem”—the $700 billion in imported oil that we need per annum to keep the economy pumping like, well, like an oil well in Texas. The Pickens Plan includes spending $58 million of his own T. Boone coin on advertising to get the point across.
Continue Reading August 18th, 2008
Aspen, CO, August 11, 2008 –– The Aspen Institute will host a special event featuring T. Boone Pickens, chairman and CEO of BP Capital Management, on Friday, August 15, 2008. The event will take place at 2:30pm at the Paepcke Auditorium on the Institute's Aspen Meadows Campus. Tickets ($10) will go on sale beginning August 11th at the Wheeler Box Office.
T. Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital Management, is principally responsible for the formulation of the energy futures investment strategy of the BP Capital Commodity Fund and the BP Capital Equity Fund. With more than $4 billion under management, BP Capital manages one of the nation’s most successful energy-oriented investment funds. Pickens frequently utilizes his wealth of experience in the oil and gas industry in the evaluation of potential equity investments and energy sector themes. He has not been shy in predicting oil and gas prices and — more often than not — has been uncannily accurate.
Continue Reading August 11th, 2008
If you think America suffers an energy crisis, you haven't seen anything yet. Shall we drill offshore? In Alaska? Should we continue with as John Denver sang, "More scars upon the land"? When will we pull our heads out of our proverbial armpits? Sooner rather later! As T. Boone Pickens said, “It's time to jump to solar and wind power!”
In this week’s dueling op-ed in U.S. News and World Report, Joseph Romm and Robinson West battled via words to catch readers' ears. Their theme: energy and our oil price crisis! Romm demanded an end to our oil addiction. West countered with a reality check: it ain't gonna' happen!
They're both encouraged to remember Einstein's prophetic words, "The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them."
Continue Reading July 18th, 2008
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen—and why the hell not?
He wore the mantle lightly at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in part because he married into the gazillionaire Buxbaum family, who have so far given tens of millions of dollars to the town, with the latest dollop a $25 million downpayment for a spanky campus at the Aspen Music Festival and School. But Friedman’s wallop at the podium has all but nothing to do with Bucksbaum bucks, and everything to do with his prescient ability to package the zeitgeist with the tidiness of a juice box—the kind that comes with its own self-piercing straw.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
The Con Man addresses a subject close to his heart--talk show hosts forced to eat their words--and then segues into free speech of all kinds. Also: can we drill our way out of the energy problem?
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Tuesday June 24, 2008.
June 25th, 2008
We all know the neoconservatives would stop at nothing—war, famine, pestilence—to have their way in the Middle East based on a philosophy resistant to any and all strains of common sense. Nuclear weapons are not only on the table: neocons are busy sharpening the silverware.
But conservatives remain hopelessly out to lunch when it comes to energy and the environment, shackled to the slavish and self-defeating notion that Ready, Drill, Aim represents a roadmap for the future. With an historical abhorrence of alternative energy—hydro, solar, and wind are for liberal windbags—conservatives of all kinds have been haplessly, helplessly, hopelessly looking for a way to at least appear as if they have a plan for energy sustenance wherein oil and natural gas are nothing more than side dishes.
Continue Reading June 16th, 2008
I cannot help noticing lately how the prices on gasoline are up (WAY up!) and the usual political election year rhetoric is again escalating on how the other side is responsible for what's going on, including more major Bush-bashing. I have never been a Bush fan, but it's just getting more and more ridiculous as time goes on to the point of being ad nauseum.
Continue Reading June 11th, 2008
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