Friday, April 30, 2010
BIGGER BUT NOT BETTER
A decade of growth for the Coachella Valley.
But I am not complaining.
We are doing OK where we live. Palm Springs has 5000 more people. They are not in my neighborhood.
As usual, a stupid headline from the local paper but nevermind. Coachella is a "city" at the other end of the valley. Not the point of the article at all.
The cities here have encouraged growth to the Valley's detriment in my opinion.
More traffic, lower quality of life in general. That kind of thing.
I know.
I am one of those who came here and now don't want anyone else to.
The natural evolution into a crabby old bastard who doesn't want change.
In some ways, I suppose, the increase is good. The tax base is needed because the city fathers signed our income away to entitlements for police and fire a long time ago.
Without the dough we would be struggling. Well, we are struggling. Make that "struggling more".
There isn't a whole lot to say. Until we stop worshiping the gods of development, this will continue.
And, eventually, the whole population explosion will inundate the world. We will be stacking them up here in the desert.
Unstoppable.
We had half a chance just after WWII and no one could bring it off. The Church opposed it and no politician would stand up for birth control except in China. Or somewhere like that. Now, all bets are off there too.
Labels: environment, life
