The Natural World Continues to Die
In reading your fine article “No Room to Roam” (Dec. 21), it seems plain that the time for compromise and trade-offs vis-a-vis development and conservation interests that come at the expense of the environment is past.
How many of us who don’t stand to profit from further development believe that we should further degrade our regional home to accommodate everyone who wants to live here until we can accept no one else when space is gone?
Building new transportation corridors eases traffic congestion this year, but speeds new development in outlying areas, which in turn clogs these new highways with traffic three years later. No problems are solved, no long-range planning accomplished, just more land developed with more people sharing a smaller, blander, more polluted pie.
How long must the learned warnings of ecologists, sociologists and others be excluded from land-use policy by those we have elected to do our environmental planning?
Each new generation of citizens emerges with less of a connection to nature. These citizens go on to make environmental policy and the natural world continues to die with each new set of compromises and trade-offs.
What we’ve done to the natural world, we’ve done to ourselves. The medium is the message we should no longer ignore.
RICHARD ALAN BORKOVETZ
Huntington Beach
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