Thank you for the important article on the
Verde River (HCN, 5/14/07). I do not understand Yavapai County
Supervisor Carol Springer’s statement, “If we
can’t grow at all in the future, because we lose our right to
pump groundwater, we will cease to exist. There is no such thing as
a static kind of a situation in terms of a community. You
can’t not grow at all and survive. We have to have some
element of growth.”
I wish he had followed up on
this, pressed her. Is she saying if they don’t grow, their
current water (which is adequate) will be taken away? I think not.
So why do they die if they don’t grow? This makes no sense.
Lots of communities have not grown and not died.
So is it
that the developers who stand to make millions are contributing to
her or cutting her in on the pie? Is she just an ideologue? I wish
Davis had pushed the point more with her.
Crista
Worthy
Pacific Palisades, California
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline The ideology of the cancer cell.
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