‘Fragile Planet’
Your editorial paints a terrifying but accurate picture of the accelerated deterioration of our fragile ecosystem. But the same picture also must be painted of our immediate Southern California environment.
Our congested freeways, polluted waters, toxic wastes, and oppressive living conditions are a direct result of a severely saturated and overcrowded urban concentration. Which in turn is a direct result of the pro-development policies of our current political and economic leaders.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and their appointed “planners” can conceive of no direction except more. Double-deck the freeways! Double sessions for schools! Dump more garbage into our valleys and bays! Do whatever we can “to keep the economy growing” (read that “to ensure the profits of the land speculators and developers”).
DONALD N. WOOD
Calabasas
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