When we see news of the African invasion of Europe, what’s generally presented is the situation on the Mediterranean of rickety boats jammed with young men determined to reach the free stuff of the First World. What’s even more alarming is how far they travel over dangerous desert terrain to demand life in Europe.
The governments of Europe are confronting an epochal choice in the Mediterranean. Do they allow Europe to remain on course toward inundation by the African population explosion, inevitably turning Florence into Ferguson and Barcelona into Baltimore?
April 22, 2015 - Earth Day 2015 brings us news of California's diminishing water resources, which portends disaster for California's bread basket. Yet because of immigration-driven population growth, demand for water, food, and natural resources is increasing in California and in the entire United States.
...California, supplier of nearly half of all US fruits, veggies, and nuts, is on track to experience the driest year in the past half millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state's "developed water," or water that's moved from its natural source to other areas via pipes and aqueducts...
...For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life — 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and coastline, shimmering with ambition and dreams, money and beauty...
It’s painful to watch your own country erode on multiple levels as to sociology, ethos, religion, quality of life, standard of living and loss of the rule of law. At my age of 68, it’s downright sickening to see what we once enjoyed to what we face today and in the near future
