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With recent demographic projections showing 60 million Californians by
the year 2040, a modification is needed for an old Albert Einstein
slogan:

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for OVERPOPULATION."

Mindless population growth is the king of environmental problems and
economic growth rides its coattails. It's not just immigration, it's
everyone who's addicted to the false promise of infinite wealth in a
finite world. Another term for it is gluttony, and people revel in that
particular sin.

Our society needs population growth like a junkie needs drugs. We keep
demanding more houses, more roads, more dams, more noise, and less
wilderness to make room for the above. Most of the construction
industry is a pyramid scheme, with housing starts as a leading economic
indicator. Growth is still treated as inevitable, not preventable.

"Smart Growth" is no better than moving furniture around to make it
look less obtrusive. Greater numbers of people can't be "managed"
forever without continued loss of wilderness and depletion of
resources. "Conserv"atives (who barely want to conserve anything)
aren't helping with their Cornucopian propaganda and disdain for
environmentalism.

Population growth needs to STOP if we want to see any real balance
between Man and nature. Our economy could function fine in a
steady-state if people stopped demanding a rising GNP each year like
robots. When will we get (electable) leaders with the courage to leave
"Growth!" out of their speeches?

E.A.

http://enough_already.tripod.com/
If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague.