[Vision2020] All Wet?

[keely emerinemix]

Thank you, B.J., for an intelligent analysis of the real issue, which, to my mind, is simply this:  Do we care for Moscow by nurturing healthy growth, supporting community-benefiting development, upholding the law out of respect for both code and our neighbors, and realizing that after the "anything goes" school of city planning comes the unfortunate but inevitable reality that everything's gone.  

We may have water for several more centuries, or we may not.  I'll apply Pascal's Wager to this:  If we live as though we have only a few decades of water left, and we're wrong, we'll have lost nothing.  But if we live as though we have centuries left, and we're wrong, we'll have lost everything.

keely




From: bjswan at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:09:21 -0700
Subject: [Vision2020] All Wet?
















Although I don’t live in Moscow and can’t vote
in the City election, the stance on issues by the Greater Moscow Alliance
candidates frankly has me concerned.

 

In the Daily News this morning was an ad, “Water? The
anti-growth politicians are all wet.”  Basically, Carscallen, Krauss
and Steed do not think we have a water problem.  The ad talks about ‘smart
conservation’ but the candidates have said they want green lawns,
development at all costs,  the scientists are wrong, Pullman is getting a
new golf course, etc.  

 

Then below the ad header, “Forward Thinking.” 
Perhaps “Heads in the Sand” would be a better description.  Is
their idea of Forward Thinking ignoring all the REAL warning signs?  What
about the many small domestic wells near Moscow that have gone dry?  What
about the declining aquifer?  What about WSU realizing that it is unwise
to water the golf course with aquifer water and are planning an effluent
system?  What about the small towns on the edge of the Snake River Aquifer
whose wells have gone dry and fighting over water rights has escalated to
violence?  Have they heard about drought and declining aquifers in nearly
every other area of the country?  

 

Please vote for intelligent planning and real Forward
Thinking; vote Ament, Holmes, Lamar and Pall.

 

B. J. Swanson







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