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Show THE ZEPH. EN printed the winter issues very early, some of these letters address issues we covered a while back. Still timely though...JS CK The Readers Respond... MORE ON POPULATION THE SHORT TRUTH ABOUT WAR im, E All war is class war. The rich men start them and the poor men die in them. Dear Jim, Huzzah! The October-November issue of the Zephyr provided a tremendous breath of fresh air for me, with its hard-hitting, impassioned prose and logic on the population crisis. Disney’s First Law indeed!! I am a long-standing member of Zero Population Growth (now known as The Population Connection), and served on its national board Larry Lindenberger St.Louis,Mo. Hii Jim, Te Ae DEA NOTE: Because we LIBERALS UE for several years, so the obvious connection between population growth and many of our worst problems has always been foremost in my thoughts. Thank you for leading out on this crucial set of issues. — ~ One oft-overlooked aspect of population growth is its effect on the political stability of a region. To my understanding, the ethnic cleansing during the Balkan War of the 90's was triggered, at least in part, by the differential growth rates of the Muslim and Christian populations in the area. The Muslim groups had much larger families than the nonMuslims, and they expanded rapidly, causing much resentment among their neighbors. Overcrowding and competition for scarce resources will cause many more such conflicts in coming years. Keep up the good work! & POPULATION I'm probably too late to make it into the feedback for next issue, but that’s OK. I just wanted to let you know that I thought the issue of the Zephyr that just came to my doorstep is the best one I’ve ever read. Which is ironic-- normally I somewhat ignore any articles in the Zephyr. that don’t pertain directly to Canyon Country and Moab. Or at the very least they’re the last ones I read. I mostly read the Zephyr to stay up on Moab-area happenings (good and bad) and to enjoy your rantings. However, this issue was incredible-- I read it in one sitting, despite the lack of directly Moab-related material. Rich Shanteau Holladay, Utah ...it sickens me how so-called “liberals” become completely paralyzed to all rational thought and discussion when the topic of immigration comes up. YET ANOTHER MAHBU CONVERT i Jim,” Sign me up as a Friend of MAHBU. I live in the Old West, Veguita, and work in the New West, Albuquerque. I have seen all the different sides in all the different people you discuss, and there are good and bad points to each. Thanks for the great article. I generally consider may a “leftist”-type. [hold my nose and vote Democrat to keep the right out of power; I have typically liberal friends with liberal ideals; and I occaisionally dabble in activism of this-or-that sort. However, it sickens me how so-called “liberals” become completely paralyzed to all rational thought and discussion when the topic of immigration comes up. They don’t want to lose their liberal-cred by seeming xenophobic or bigoted. It’s not xenophobia! It’s not bigotry! It’s common sense! We're destroying our country, exhausting it’s resources, and. it’s not because we're eens too many babies Ted Hodoba New Mexico _ (as much as the good people of Utah may be trying). po You HAVE A PULSE? Ro. YOU HAVE A COMMENT FOR THE ZEPHYR? _Imsick of hearing people refer to Abbey’s s “unfortunate views on immigration.” Most of the happy-go-lucky-outdoor-loving-liberal-set (of whom I am a card-carrying member) FEEL LIKE RANTING? “PRO OR CON...WE'LL PRINT IT. simply can’t juxtapose Abbey's gorgeous naturalist prose with his idealist, yet pragmatic, politics. But damn it all, by the time we get to 600 million we won't be able-to enjoy the country that prose deals with because it'll be completely covered with uranium mines, ae potash plants, aerial tramways, a oh eae ese ea eae : Keep up the:good work. _eezephyr@frontiernet.net . Patrick Donnelly tee S HERB RINGER'S B-17 PHOTO | Editor: The picture of an airplane you said looks like a B- Te -- posted online at... http://www. yf pril-may2003/herb-reno. htm —itiSa Bl 17 Flying Fortress-- just a very early version, circa 1935-1940, before they did away with the side blisters, and added a et position, and a much larger vertical Yucca Valley, CA FROM THE AUTHOR OF “THE POPULATION FLX’ - Jim Stiles: ‘I visited www. CanyonCountryZephyr. com to read Kathleene Parker's excellent piece “Day of 300 Million”--and thank you for running it--but discovered much more, including your “Take It Or Leave It” article about population growth. Great work!!! Thank you so much for doing your part to get people thinking...and talking. tail (B-17E model). This style looks similar to the B-17’s that were approaching Pearl Harbor when the And, yes, you have my permission to use--or abuse--any part of this email ee choose. Japanese struck, Dec. 7, 1941. A flight of them was expected from the West Coast, so when a radar operator (radar was new and primitive in those days) called the base and reported signals showing a large radar return approaching the island, the base people dismissed it as probably the arriving B-17s. OOPS. Few of these early models were built. The B-17s we're normally familiar with are much different in appearance. For examples, see: About 20 of these early models were used by the British in bombing German naval Edward C. Hartman, Author of The Population Fix: - Breaking America’s Addiction To Population Growth www. ThePopulationFix.com bases, before we entered the war. However, various defects in equipment, crews tactics and strategy resulted in little success. Later missions, after the U.S. entered with war with the B-17E through B-17G, were -- well, legendary successes. For pix of various versions, and details, see: E arty http://aerofiles.com/_boe.htm] Srieit R. Harris ONE-of-a-KIND JEWELRY LOCAL y & REGIONAL ARTISTS Gifts & Artwork 135 North Main St. 259.1121 ‘worth the extra block..north.” < AMMONITE EARTH ANGEL 28 |