By Inge Quaglino Santa Monica
Re: (“Having another baby to rekindle the thrill,” Aug. 7) I am surprised that in today’s age, with a major population problem, educated and intelligent people are still rhapsodizing about having more babies. How terribly irresponsible! Instead, we should be educating the public that it’s OK not to have children or, if they so wish, to limit themselves... We will be running out of resources (water, food, etc.) not only in the underdeveloped countries, but here as well.
Everyone complains about traffic, congestion, poverty, etc. — keeping the population at a manageable level is one of the most important things we can do to ease these problems.
Ms. (Angie) Wagner should subscribe to the Population Institute’s newsletter if she needs to be convinced. We need to limit population growth, not only in Third World countries, but here as well — especially since, in this country, we use a disproportionate amount of limited resources.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 10, 2007. Read the original PDF.