This letter ran in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
This is someone who either does not understand population growth or who is blind to the facts.
My hope is that people who believe this will do their part and completely stop reproducing.
I want to thank Antone G. Holmquist for reading my previous letter to the editor and for his response. The emphasis of my previous letter was that population growth was the most important driver to all our environmental problems including climate change, habitat loss, algae blooms, etc. If we are not able to move to a stable, sustainable population with zero growth then we will simply not be able to stop the degradation of this planet. Unfortunately, many environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, do not recognize the importance of population growth to our environmental problems. The Sierra Club adopted a policy in 1989 that immigration should be no greater than that which will permit zero population growth in the United States. Subsequently, for political and financial expediency, the Sierra Club abandoned this position. We need to achieve zero population growth if we are ever going to have any hope to stop climate change and help preserve our present world. Any environmental group or environmentalist that ignores population growth are the ones being ridiculous.
Dean B. Edwards, Moscow