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For several years, Will Durst has narrated a series of smug radio ads
that simplistically blame California's water and transportation
problems on a lack of construction jobs or as the result of political
games with tax dollars. True to their growth-addict underpinnings,
rebuildca.org bashes the ESA and other environmental concerns that
"impede" never ending human population growth.

Anyone who thinks building more roads can solve traffic congestion
only needs to look at Los Angeles and its terminal gridlock. More
roads can only help for a brief time unless the population stabilizes.
Constantly trying to build our way out of overpopulation is a shallow
approach that has failed in most urban regions. California's 2nd
biggest metro region, the Bay Area, is full of ongoing construction
projects that never really relieve congestion and actually contribute
to it with perpetual lane closures. That's because congestion is
really a people surplus, not an asphalt shortage.

It should be clear that the root cause of traffic jams, water
shortages and farmland\wilderness destruction is relentless population
growth. In the long run we don't need more roads, houses, dams and
power plants; we need more birth control and less immigration to stop
the never-ending consumption that people mistake for "progress."

Yes, we do need to rebuild our infrastructure where it's in disrepair,
but let's not confuse that with a pyramid scheme of endless growth to
feed an unnaturally large population. California is looking at a
staggering crowd of 50 million people before mid-century and we
shouldn't encourage that by framing it as an engine for "job creation"
while ignoring its grave side-effects.

E.A.

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If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague.