Are you feeling crowded?

If you're feeling a bit crowded these days, then following are statistics showing how our lebensraum--our living space--on Earth has decreased dramatically over the centuries but particularly since 1937.

A child born in 2003, is sharing a square mile with 10.95 people; one born in 1937 shared it with 3.65 people; and back in 1607 a child's birthright was an exclusive square mile.

With the world's population increasing unchecked, our lebensraum will inevitably get smaller because the world--at 575,096,920 square miles--is not going to get any bigger!

the wealthy Chinese exodus

Pippen visited China prior to the Beijing Games and left with vivid memories of its culture and people, and believes that there IS going to be a massive exodus of wealthy Chinese immigrants heading our way in the coming years.

"We had been warned about air pollution in Beijing and believe me it was worse than we expected," says Pippen. "I realize that our cities at home cleaned up when industries off-shored to China, but it strikes me as a terrible bargain for China. No wonder so many wealthy Chinese are emigrating”

“People here are dropping dead like flies from respiratory diseases,” says Pippen. “It's not smoking that's killing them; it's industrial and vehicular air pollution."

"Today, China has the world’s fastest growing economy and four times the population of the US," says Pippen. "Per capita consumption rates in China are about 11 times below ours, but once they rise to our level -- as they will do soon -- most economists and environmentalists predict catastrophic consequences (least of which is going to be expanding girths) and that's no laughing matter."

“But it is not just the catastrophic consequences of China’s fast growing economy and population that will spearhead this exodus,” says Pippen. “It is a belief, held by the Party and its wealthy supporters, that their people were the first migrants -- migrating throughout the Americas and the regions along the Pacific Rim, becoming the Indian tribes in the Americas and the East Asian ethnic groups in the South Pacific – and consequently that all land once settled by ethnic Chinese rightly belongs to China.”

“Are wealthy Chinese buying up land near you?”

Read more by Pippen on China:

Old and New China

the miraculous Chinese

three races, one perfect?

America first settled by Chinese

fat figures of fun in China

alienated in China

China's Ancient Roots