EIGHT ASPIRATIONS
By Edward C. Fritz
October 21, 2001
1. Respect fellow humans.
2, Serve each other.
3. Do not kill fellow humans, even if one of them kills another.
4. Join with all other humans in world law, to solve international problems and to eliminate wars.
5. Conserve all species, including species we eat or utilize.
6. Sustain all resources needed for survival, including by limiting production.
7. Adopt healthful measures to limit human population to sustainable numbers.
8. Enjoy life.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Churches Are Our Best Hope
CHURCHES ARE OUR BEST HOPE FOR
SUPPORTING POPULATION CONTROL LAWS
By Edward C. Fritz
Unless humans rapidly control our population growth, we will soon run out of certain basic life resources and suffer a catastrophic population crash. Churches are our best hope to encourage drastic governmental population control to save enough resources for human survival.
China limits its population to one child per couple. All other nations should limit their populations. The United States should also tighten its control of migration from other nations.
Most humans love life. In 40 years, humans will double our populations and use us our available foods and water to where many people can no longer survive.
Political parties have failed to move on population control. Environmental groups are limited. Churches are our best chance to spread the movement. Let us start now before it is too late.
We must maintain all essential resources by controlling growth of human population. Almost anyone can enjoy life thoroughly with two or less children.
SUPPORTING POPULATION CONTROL LAWS
By Edward C. Fritz
Unless humans rapidly control our population growth, we will soon run out of certain basic life resources and suffer a catastrophic population crash. Churches are our best hope to encourage drastic governmental population control to save enough resources for human survival.
China limits its population to one child per couple. All other nations should limit their populations. The United States should also tighten its control of migration from other nations.
Most humans love life. In 40 years, humans will double our populations and use us our available foods and water to where many people can no longer survive.
Political parties have failed to move on population control. Environmental groups are limited. Churches are our best chance to spread the movement. Let us start now before it is too late.
We must maintain all essential resources by controlling growth of human population. Almost anyone can enjoy life thoroughly with two or less children.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
WORLD LAW: THE BEST WAY TO SAVE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES
Without law, we cannot keep down the rate of murder and other crimes within any nation.
Let’s face it: Without world law, we cannot suppress armed attacks by people of a nation on people of another nation (war) and other destruction, such as permanent reduction of natural resources, including soil, drinking water and forests.
Permanent reduction is already taking a toll. Three-fourths of our world population suffers from inadequate food and drink. To save humanity, we must accomplish rapid reform.
Exploiters of natural resources are wiping out natural resources in all nations, thereby jeopardizing the survival of humans.
Examples include our tropical forests, where 2/3 of the species of life on earth dwell. Timber companies are logging the trees. Corn growers are slashing and burning the vegetation about once every three years. Humans are cutting new openings for new roads and towns. Governments are letting people ruin the forests.
People all over the world need the tropical forests for timber, medicines, and certain foods and supplies. Nations and free trade associations are doing little to conserve tropical forests and other natural resources.
The best way to save the forests is to form a democratic world government with authority to conserve natural resources.
World government environmental staffers would be more likely to conserve our natural resources than are national government staffers such as those of the U.S. Forest Service, who serve not only the Congress elected by Big Timber dollars, but also the timber buyers who buy logs from Forest Service staffers year after year.
In addition to conservation, war is—as in Vietnam War—destructive to forests and other natural resources, only way to prevent war is to establish world law against armed forces and weapon of mass destruction. Therefore, environmentalists should join and support the movement for world law, particularly World Federalist Association.
Without world law, humans are heading for extinction, not only by destroying nations with weapons of mass destruction, but also by exploiting our natural resources.
Let’s face it: Without world law, we cannot suppress armed attacks by people of a nation on people of another nation (war) and other destruction, such as permanent reduction of natural resources, including soil, drinking water and forests.
Permanent reduction is already taking a toll. Three-fourths of our world population suffers from inadequate food and drink. To save humanity, we must accomplish rapid reform.
Exploiters of natural resources are wiping out natural resources in all nations, thereby jeopardizing the survival of humans.
Examples include our tropical forests, where 2/3 of the species of life on earth dwell. Timber companies are logging the trees. Corn growers are slashing and burning the vegetation about once every three years. Humans are cutting new openings for new roads and towns. Governments are letting people ruin the forests.
People all over the world need the tropical forests for timber, medicines, and certain foods and supplies. Nations and free trade associations are doing little to conserve tropical forests and other natural resources.
The best way to save the forests is to form a democratic world government with authority to conserve natural resources.
World government environmental staffers would be more likely to conserve our natural resources than are national government staffers such as those of the U.S. Forest Service, who serve not only the Congress elected by Big Timber dollars, but also the timber buyers who buy logs from Forest Service staffers year after year.
In addition to conservation, war is—as in Vietnam War—destructive to forests and other natural resources, only way to prevent war is to establish world law against armed forces and weapon of mass destruction. Therefore, environmentalists should join and support the movement for world law, particularly World Federalist Association.
Without world law, humans are heading for extinction, not only by destroying nations with weapons of mass destruction, but also by exploiting our natural resources.
Thumbnail Sketch of Edward C. Fritz
Founder of Texas Committee on Natural Resources, now Chair Emeritus and Chair, Forest Task Force. Founder and member of the Board of Directors of Texas League of Conservation Voters. Founder and now Secretary of Natural Area Preservation Association, a Texas land trust with 80 nature preserves, the largest being 22,000 acres. First president of Dallas County Audubon Society.
In the conservation field, received the 1970 National American Motors Conservation Award in the non-professional category; the 1975 Oak Leaf Award of the Natural Conservancy and the 1978 Feinstone Foundation Award for outstanding environmentalist in the United States; the 1985 Sierra Club National Achievement Award; the 1990 Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Award (by President George Bush); a 1990 Special Service Award by the Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter; and a 1992 Conservation Forester of the Year Award by Sportsmen Conservationists of Texas; 1993 Merit Award, Texas Organization for Endangered Species; and 1994 Environmental Excellence Award, CEED; 1996 Floyd Potter Award for outstanding achievement in endangered species conservation, TOES; 1997 Meryl and Edith Hoyt Volunteer of the Year, Dallas County Audubon Society; 1998 Excellence in Environmental Awareness, League of Women Voters of Texas; 1999 Texas Audubon Society Centennial Award; 2001 Award by Big Thicket Association for contributions for establishing the Big Thicket National Preserve, 2001 National Wildlife Federation National Conservation Achievement Award for Special Achievement.
Is author of three books: award-winning Sterile Forest, Eakin Press, 1983; Realms of Beauty, University of Texas Press, 1986 (revised); Clearcutting: A Crime Against Nature, Eakin Press, 1989. Authored numerous conservation and nature articles for magazines and other media.
Drafted the Texas Scientific Areas Act and several other bills for the Texas legislature, and the East Texas Wilderness Act, passed by the Congress of the U.S. and signed into law on October 30, 1984; the Forest Biodiversity Protection Act, introduced into Congress from 1993 to 1997.
Graduated from law school at Southern Methodist University in 1940 with an Ll.B degree, after first obtaining a B.A. degree at University of Chicago. Has practiced law in Dallas ever since, with time out for service as a naval aviator in World War II. Southern Methodist University awarded him its honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in May, 1991.
Served as attorney for Texas Committee on Natural Resources (co-plaintiff with Sierra Club and Wilderness Society) in lawsuit against the Forest Service (USDA) resulting in 1988 injunction against even-age management in habitat of endangered Red-cockaded woodpecker in Texas. Forest Service appeal denied in 1991. Won a 1997 injunction against all logging in national forests in Texas, reversed in 2000, now before the District Court for rehearing. In July, 2003, with the Forest Service’s new RCW plan and with a different attorney representing TCONR, the injunctions were lifted.
Began his interest in conservation at the age of 12 while passing merit badges to become an Eagle Scout.
In the conservation field, received the 1970 National American Motors Conservation Award in the non-professional category; the 1975 Oak Leaf Award of the Natural Conservancy and the 1978 Feinstone Foundation Award for outstanding environmentalist in the United States; the 1985 Sierra Club National Achievement Award; the 1990 Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Award (by President George Bush); a 1990 Special Service Award by the Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter; and a 1992 Conservation Forester of the Year Award by Sportsmen Conservationists of Texas; 1993 Merit Award, Texas Organization for Endangered Species; and 1994 Environmental Excellence Award, CEED; 1996 Floyd Potter Award for outstanding achievement in endangered species conservation, TOES; 1997 Meryl and Edith Hoyt Volunteer of the Year, Dallas County Audubon Society; 1998 Excellence in Environmental Awareness, League of Women Voters of Texas; 1999 Texas Audubon Society Centennial Award; 2001 Award by Big Thicket Association for contributions for establishing the Big Thicket National Preserve, 2001 National Wildlife Federation National Conservation Achievement Award for Special Achievement.
Is author of three books: award-winning Sterile Forest, Eakin Press, 1983; Realms of Beauty, University of Texas Press, 1986 (revised); Clearcutting: A Crime Against Nature, Eakin Press, 1989. Authored numerous conservation and nature articles for magazines and other media.
Drafted the Texas Scientific Areas Act and several other bills for the Texas legislature, and the East Texas Wilderness Act, passed by the Congress of the U.S. and signed into law on October 30, 1984; the Forest Biodiversity Protection Act, introduced into Congress from 1993 to 1997.
Graduated from law school at Southern Methodist University in 1940 with an Ll.B degree, after first obtaining a B.A. degree at University of Chicago. Has practiced law in Dallas ever since, with time out for service as a naval aviator in World War II. Southern Methodist University awarded him its honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in May, 1991.
Served as attorney for Texas Committee on Natural Resources (co-plaintiff with Sierra Club and Wilderness Society) in lawsuit against the Forest Service (USDA) resulting in 1988 injunction against even-age management in habitat of endangered Red-cockaded woodpecker in Texas. Forest Service appeal denied in 1991. Won a 1997 injunction against all logging in national forests in Texas, reversed in 2000, now before the District Court for rehearing. In July, 2003, with the Forest Service’s new RCW plan and with a different attorney representing TCONR, the injunctions were lifted.
Began his interest in conservation at the age of 12 while passing merit badges to become an Eagle Scout.
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