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If you simply think like a populationist and encourage others to think like populationists, you will have done a good deal to break America’s addiction to population growth. If you are able to contribute money to some of the organizations listed in Appendix B of The Population Fix, you will have done still more in that endeavor. If you are also able to contribute time and energy to that mission, you will begin to see immediate feedback and payoff for your efforts. |
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CONTRIBUTE ENERGY
There are so many population growth addicts, pushers, and enablers in America, you can’t possibly react every time you read, hear, or see something that suggests someone is advocating an action which will further increase America’s population growth. So, pick your spots carefully...or sleeplessly. If something you’ve read, heard, or seen angers you so much you have difficulty putting it out of your mind when you should be sleeping, that is probably a good candidate for action!
Make a telephone call or write a letter or fax and ask, “How many people do you want in America? And if you don’t know, how dare you support America’s addiction to population growth which is pointing us toward a population of one billion within present lifetimes!” Enough angry calls, letters, and faxes and some of the addicts, pushers, and enablers will begin rethinking their positions and their public images.
Incidentally, you may have noticed I didn’t suggest you contact producers of America’s addiction to population growth. That is because the producers live on, and therefore live for, America’s population growth addiction. There is nothing you can say to any of them which will in any way sway their dedication to thwarting, knowingly or unknowingly, America’s quest for a sustainable population.
One final thing you may want to remember: You can answer many questions and resolve many arguments simply by saying or writing, “I believe in an America with a population of (insert your number) million. If you want an America with many more people or if you don’t know how many people you want America to have in the future, then you and I have quite different attitudes about our responsibilities to future generations of Americans. I am concerned about America seven generations from today. I am an altruist and I am a populationist.”
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©2006 Edward C. Hartman. All Rights Reserved
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