These should be repeated anytime a person feels the urge to build a Walmart. Bigger is not always Better. Cost and Price are entirely different. More is actually less. Manifest Destiny was a lousy idea.
Pavement is bad, open space is good.
Now that I have vented, let me say that all our actions on behalf of our beleaguered planet do make a difference. Once again we have kept hunters at bay by voting down Prop.197. Open primaries will change the face of California politics, and we are beginning to slow the pace of development. Not bad for a bunch of tree-huggers. If we are to save ourselves from the slippery slope of extinction, we must control our numbers.