March 2007 | Letters to the Editor
Population Growth
Dear Editor:
I thought your article consisting of excerpts from Edward Hartman’s The Population Fix was too narrowly focused.
To be sure, population growth is a problem. But one that should not be treated separately from other environmental ones.
For instance, say we could freeze the human population at 6 billion. However, with our current fixation on economic growth, we would still have corporations marketing their wares to the 5 billion people who live at lower material standards than us in the global north. The Chinese and the Indians want their cars too. So the demand on the Earth would continue to grow exponentially. It would take something like four Earths to bring the rest of the world up to first-world levels of energy and resource use.
Unequal and unsustainable levels of consumption are a much bigger problem than population.
—Colin Wright, Seattle
Controversial Cover?
To the editor:
While I appreciate the story on plastic and our society I don’t see why there needs to be a naked woman on the cover of your magazine but I guess like everything else in our society “sex sells.” It is an artistic picture but it seems unnecessary for a so-called enlighted publication to have such a picture on the cover.
I enjoy your magazine but this month I am passing it by.
—Jamini Young, Internet
We Support Marriage Equality
Bravo for running the bold and beautiful, full-page collage in celebration of love without restrictions. It’s so rare that a magazine surprises its readers in a way that makes them really proud of the publication they’re holding in their hands. The Blake quote is chillingly apt, and the whole page is visually stunning — a heart-felt valentine from SCC to its readers.
—Jolia, Internet
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