VSP Update

[plumb....@gmail.com]

I don’t usually use this email to promote the activities of other groups but VSP has been part of 350vt.org’s efforts to call attention to climate change and has supported VSP so I want to alert you to a press conference this very collaborative and grassroots organization is having this Wednesday at 10 am to announce the Fossil Fuel Freedom Campaign. The press conference will be in the Cedar Creek Room and I will be attending. For more details go to their web site at www.350.org While there look at the banner on the right and you will see a badge for reducing carbon emissions by taking our pledge to live more sustainably. It is pretty neat that our little volunteer organization with almost no budget is there with major organizations having large staffs and million dollar budgets. Thanks so much to each of you for making this possible.

 

If you do go to the press conference and would like to chat over coffee or tea before or after I always love to talk about what is going on regarding the environment and population. Just let me know. plumb....@gmail.com

 

And speaking of what is going on there has been and continues to be quite a dialogue going on on the Transitions Vermont blog page with even out of staters getting involved.

http://transitionvermont.ning.com/forum/topics/part-3-what-constitutes-overpopulation-in-america-species-1

This all started when someone responded to board member Mark Powell’s letter in Vermont media about the world population reaching seven billion and famine almost certainly going to be a result. In the letter Mark just briefly mentioned that the U.S. needed to reduce immigration to a sustainable level and it sparked what I would call a nasty response by a couple of people who can’t be objective about the issue. Congratulations Mark for your very time consuming follow up.

 

Hope to see you at the state house!

George
True sustainability will only be achieved with population stabilization.
www.vspop.org
http://groups.google.com/group/vermonters-for-sustainable-population

[TOM MCKENNA]

I can't come to the State House then but thanks for going, George.

 

And thanks again to Mark for all he has done and gone through.

 

As I related before, the bad Gannet newspaper where I lived in Colorado attacked me personally, by name, in two of their own editorials. They never missed a chance to attack me and any others who advocated less population growth. If I had walked on water, their headline would have been, "Tom McKenna can't swim."

 

Tom