Growth has become a self-perpetuating ideology that is far from sustainable. While creating an ever increasing burden on future generations, it requires more where there is none to give. We can not go on at our current pace and expect even a fraction of our current good fortune twenty years from now. Open space is being eradicated faster then you can say California gnatcatcher. Once a desert, San Diego county is now just a sprawling suburb, oblivious to anything other than immediate gratification.
Water scarcity is a good example.
As a governing board, the San Diego Association of Governments is working to accommodate a million more people in the region, completely ignoring the fact that water resources in San Diego County are stretched to their limits. As if trapped in a nasty game of Catch-22, water infrastructure is being built to meet the needs of existing residents, while cities continue to approve residential developments that place a further burden on water supplies. Limiting growth is in no way anti-progress. Nor is it anti-business. An overpopulated region of thirsty people is nothing to look forward to.