Stabilizing population is no longer enough.

• Author: Buller, Bernard
• Position: From Readers - Letter to the Editor

In her best-selling book of 1984, The March of Folly, Barbara Tuchman asked: "Why does American business insist on 'growth' when it is demonstrably using up the three basics of life on our planet--land, water, and unpolluted air?" Now, 20 years later, with one-third more people on the planet, shouldn't World Watch be giving central emphasis to articles on all aspects of the challenge of reversing growth in global population and in use of nonrenewable resources?

After your promising but wordy start in September, I looked in vain for prospects of any...