Statistics to Doom?

Statistics to Doom?

Random researching inspired by seeing cars, cars, cars outside my windows near Dallas Texas…

Persons per square mile, 2000 2,521.5 (US Census Bureau)

Households, 2000 807,621 (US Census Bureau)

3,469.9 people per square mile (1,339.7/km²). (Wiki)

To quote the late environmentalist Edward Abbey, "growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Sixty percent of U.S. households have two or more cars, according to 1996 estimates by Urban Decision Systems. Gross calculation: 807,621 X 0.60 X 2 = 969,145 automobiles

Texas fully congested. About a quarter of the Texas interstate system in metropolitan and urban areas is at 95 percent capacity, and an additional 40 percent has reached 80 percent capacity. Traffic is expected to increase 50 percent in the next 18 years.

Example one vehicle driven 15,000 per year with 18 mpg inefficiency

Your total emissions are: 7.38 tons of CO2

Is the media tired of anything related to overpopulation?

Retired Site…The "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb" site has been retired from pbs.org. At least some websites still address this issue (http://dieoff.org/page27.htm)

Humans have destroyed more than 30 per cent of the natural world since 1970 with serious depletion of the forest, freshwater and marine systems on which life depends. -- [Guardian, 10/2/98]

We call the problem the kankyou mondai, the environmental problem. (http://buddycom.com/animal/envirimg/island/ecodecay.html)

How and why journalist avoid the population-environmental connection (http://dieoff.org/page118.htm)

???“…but the best hope for the environment in the twenty-first century lies in a religious revival around the world that recognizes the human obligation to environmental protection and enjoyment.” No comment, you be the judge on the statement that “Judeo-Christian tradition is the best basis for environmentalism.” (http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/interview.php?id=301 )

Sources:

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Dallas,_Texas

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/10/post_18.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4021/is_n12_v18/ai_18894247

http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac.html

http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/offset/index.php?c=1

http://dieoff.org

http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-carsolution.html

http://buddycom.com/animal/envirimg/island/ecodecay.html

http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/interview.php?id=301