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...Human Swarm As the debate on carbon emissions and climate change heats up [Jan. 29], I am amazed many discussions ignore a main cause of environmental degradation: overpopulation. We've been breeding like locusts, filling all available space and devouring available resources. The planet can't sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult ethical and sociological issues, but if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin
...that's exactly where he got it wrong. When his photographs work they bid us into a realm of privacy, inwardness and even shame. To sustain that mood requires them to shut out the banalities of the outside world. And what's more banal than celebrity? Yes, yes, we've heard, stardom is a fantasy too, but it's the type that steamrollers every more intimate kind. Anybody who thinks that the red carpet is the royal road to the unconscious has lost his bearings. Crewdson's pictures stop working the minute you find yourself wondering about the wrap party...
...Kristol accused the democrats of hoping this war fails and more U.S. troops and Iraqis die so that Bush and the Republicans look bad. That is spin at its worst. Kristol also tried to perpetuate the tired notion that it's important to sustain this war as part of a larger war on terrorism. But we will not condone this lie of an occupation anymore. Pam Bergren Hartford, Connecticut...
...debate on carbon emissions and climate change heats up [Jan. 29], I am amazed that a lot of discussions ignore one of the main causes of environmental degradation: overpopulation. We have been breeding like locusts, filling every available space and devouring all available resources. The planet simply cannot sustain such population growth, particularly when everyone understandably aspires to a First World lifestyle. Tackling this problem raises difficult moral, ethical and sociological issues. But if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable. Dick Keane Dublin...
...started off his run a few weeks ago by blasting Obama, Clinton and Edwards' ideas on Iraq in an interview, said, "Sign me up, no negatives," shortly after Richardson's appeal. Of course, campaigns are about illustrating differences, and Richardson's Mr. Positive approach can be tough to sustain. Just seconds after his plea for civility, Richardson noted, "Governors actually do things." Undoubtedly, the many U.S. Senators who are opposing him had a hard time hearing that as a compliment...