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[JDPriestly]

3. I drove through the heart of Los Angeles and westward this morning,

and I asked myself as I looked out over neighborhoods that once had grassy lawns and clean air and quiet streets and thought about what overpopulation has brought to our sprawling city: acres of cement, dusty, dirty, polluted air and so much noise that it shakes your bones.

Then I asked myself, "Do these anti-abortion, anti-birth-control neanderthals living in the Midwest and in the South know how they will live if their campaign to overpopulate the earth with humans succeeds?"

Many areas of LA are still quite livable including, thus far, my own. But the density and sprawl and all the bad stuff that accompanies those things is spreading. It could become almost unlivable in just a matter of years if the population grows without check.

And quite frankly, the earth cannot feed an unlimited number of humans.

I was thinking this morning about the fact that the earth does not really belong to humans. It belongs to a lot of living beings. We have to share it. The Fundamentalists do not seem to understand that basic fact of nature. We cannot live on this earth all by ourselves. We have to leave some room for other creatures.