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Problem is with POPULATION!!!

All of the talk about alternative energy, green building, etc., etc., etc. is great.

However, the biggest problem is that Tidwell (he will not address it) and certain other "activists" (i.e. segments of the Sierra Club) will not admit that population growth (including illegal population growth in the US, for example) is the defining problem behind our situation. If we could maintain a stable population, we would have an easier time correcting our consumption patterns and living habits.

I can build as many wind mills as I can, but it doesn't matter if we have people (in the US and abroad) still having 5-7 more children. They are all additional consumers who will then have to decide to change their consumptive habits. The market place shows that the new additions to the US consume as much as the existing citizens who are known already for excess (i.e. cars/SUV's, Walmart, excessive meat consumption). This is combined with the problem that in other countries including Africa and China, the consumptive patterns are increasing whether or not the population is increasing.

These are the "difficult" and logical choices that the both the left and the right fail to deal with. It is very unfortunate.
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