Letters to the Editor
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Hm
Andrew, I think it's a bit unfair to say that planners should have taken overdevelopment into consideration. I'm sure they did. But any calculation has its limits. The problem is the same fundamental one we've had for a long time, and which few people want to deal with - overpopulation - and unfortunately, it's a "delicate" question which the public had never wanted to address. (Mainly because the vast majority of people are not willing to give up the idea of making copies of themselves, just in order to relieve the stress on the planet.)
There's plenty of water. There just isn't enough water for how many people we've got sucking it up. We keep reproducing at explosive rates, OF COURSE the water (the land, the food...) will run out. What do people expect??
If environmentalists are really serious about earth changes, they're going to have to deal with this issue, because eventually it's going to eat the planet up like a big ol' chocolate covered cherry. Until I hear more "concerned" people speak up on this, the most fundamental of environmental issues, everything they say will be so much hot air.