That's a fact today and that will be a fact tomorrow. The Rural Heritage and Watershed Initiative and Jerry Harmon's Building Moratorium are only short term ideas. Quite a vision. Let's talk about stopping population growth. Development can be the ongoing evolution of something.
Growth means the physical increase of something.
It is this physical increase that consumes and depletes the environment and threatens our quality of life. The truth is, beyond some point growth cannot be sustained. Unmanaged growth is the ideology of the cancer cell and we must confront how to deal with both regional and global demographic realities. Globally, population sustainability and stabilization is an essential step in arresting the destruction of natural resources and ensuring that the needs of people can be met humanely. Thirty-three countries, encompassing 14 percent of global population, now have stable populations, including Japan and most of those in Europe.