Just finished reading Mr. Brancaccio’s column, and could not agree more with his assessment that the human overpopulation is the primary source for all our problems (“Mother Nature’s coming for you,” The Columbian, May 2). I recall seeing population projection charts, back in the early 1960s, for the California coast communities, when the world population was just a little over 3 billion. The projections only covered to 2000 and at that time I felt that Orange County was too crowded. The projections were just frightening, feeling the loss of open spaces.
Well, as I experience today’s situation, my fears were not exaggerated, but are much worse than I conceived as a teenager.
