Letter: Growing population puts water at risk

Published 1:30 am Saturday, April 25, 2026

Editor,

It’s good that you published the credibly established effects of excess population density growth to a confined environment. Whidbey Island is our confined environment and we need to protect it.

It’s time to wake up. Healthy, clean, potable water is a critical essential that narrow-minded commercial proponents and developers suppress.

The day also is coming when procreation instincts must be tempered if we’re going to avoid the draconian limits imposed by Famine, Pandemics and War.

China did it their way. We mocked and criticized them for it, but look what it did for them? In a mere decade or two, it brought them from being a “third-world” nation to a leading world power that Donald Trump fears.

Look at us now! We’re slamming our border gates shut trying to stop our own slide into the “third-world.”

We on Washington’s Western Side used to laugh at “global warming” threats, but who will laugh when we get upcoming fire insurance bills?

Al Williams

Oak Harbor