Overpopulated.Daniel Callahan's claim that "there is little good to be said" about dropping birthrates is misguided mis·guid·ed adj. Based or acting on error; misled: well-intentioned but misguided efforts; misguided do-gooders. mis·guid . When I drive out of Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. and into western Maryland, all I see are sprawling communities of cookie-cutter houses, carved carve v. carved, carv·ing, carves v.tr. 1. a. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice: carved a roast. b. out of native grasslands. As the U.S. population grows, cities will continue to expand from the coasts, destroying what little wilderness wilderness, land retaining its primeval character with the imprint of humans minimal or unnoticeable. In the United States, the Wilderness Act of 1964 established the National Wilderness Preservation System with a nucleus of 9 million acres (3. we have left. Larger populations mean more need for agriculture, which is already working at an unsustainable rate because of decreasing soil quality. From my point of view, dropping birthrates actually seem like a good thing. ARES GEOVANOS Baltimore, Md. |
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