The Opinion errand-boy of your Sunday copy seems to me to be illustrative of the incongruous contemplative of so many of the hand-wringing, woe-is-us media publications, and I be suspicious of of the too often cynical business figures from politicians to article writers. Hart's 'The misconception of spread in a bound world' certain sounds like the Malthusian pronouncements of 180 years ago which postulated that denizens swelling would be exponential while the crop of food and goods would be arithmetic, guaranteeing that starvation and desolation would result. But the graphs in Hart's article hint that the advance of the world's GDP, a unextravagant measure of the 'average' well-being of humanity, has grown at a much faster merit than inhabitants in that 180 years. I have lived for 77 years and have traveled considerably over those years and I can aver you the world, in almost every measure, is better off than it was even 50 years ago, let merely 180 years ago.
Growth is not an evil, but the 'sky is falling' renowned pronouncements and the governing policies which often result, befuddle everyone, including protocol makers, from the legitimatize issues of wisely managing that growth. And on a different, but related, surroundings the article on Salem's "sprawl" is another benchmark of the misleading and impassioned finger-pointing that contributes nothing useful. What, exactly, does "sprawl" mean? The natives of Salem grew from 1978 when Mike Swain moved there to today, so the metropolis expanded. What is the point, that no one should have moved to Salem after Swain did, or that there should have been no babies born there in that 32 years? Did Swain combine to that "sprawl" when HE moved there? Maybe Swain, and Hart as far as that goes, should turn to Harney County… …physically larger, I think than the six of our states, with a residents of only about 7,700. Hey, no "sprawl" there, eh!
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