Letters to the editor for Thursday, Jan. 8

• Published January 08, 2009

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We must stop population growth

While passing a downtown alley, a nice little old lady said "PSSST! Sonny, come here!" I did. Turns out, it was Ol' Mother Nature. She wanted me to pass along something she'd forgotten to tell Tom Holz the other day. That is, "You humans have got to stop the growth of your population. If you don't, you'll lose it all."

I didn't try to tell her otherwise. After all, she is mighty tired of arguing with pro-life enforcers, economists, anti-birth-control churches, cheap-labor-mongers, Chambers of Commerce, pro-immigration multiculturists, science-can-solve-it-all idealists, just-conserve environmentalists and suspicious minorities.

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"Hee hee, well sonny, like more and more people jumping on a merry-go-round, the earth will rotate more and more slowly — until it stops! With the U.S. on the night side, facing away from the sun."

"What?"

Well, hee hee, not really. But seriously — if you want to see how everybody will live some day if you don't stop growth, just look at Haiti. With population growth, no matter what else happens, you will all get there. Most folks sooner, the rest of us later.

And then she was gone.

But she was right. Although growth has contributed to prosperity in the past, it ultimately will create unstoppable sustainable poverty and suffering in the future. If we stop population growth, all other problems become solvable. If we don't, all other problems will get worse. No joke.

David H. Milne, Shelton

Triway is ignoring 4,000 petition signers

I find it interesting that Triway is willing to concede to neighbors' concerns by withdrawing a bid for 90-foot rezone on the west side. But his argument for building tall buildings on the isthmus is a tribute to the community.

So he sees tall buildings as an asset where 4,000 petitioners don't, but withdraws a rezone request on the west side because of a few neighbors protesting.

Don't you wonder about a City Council that doesn't see this repeated rezone request as harmful?

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