Dear Editor,

 

When DANNY HAKIM  refers to "America's Love Affair With S.U.V.'s” in today’s NYT he is using a euphemism for “addiction ”.

 

America is, quite literally, addicted – to S.U.Vs, to automobiles in general, to a growth-dependent economy, and to a grossly materialistic, completely unsustainable way of life.

 

The injustice of it all is that it probably won’t kill us, but our children and coming generations, who are really going to LOVE us.

 

When is America (and the rest of the world) going to come out of denial about what we are doing to our planet? Namely, plundering it!

 

When it was pointed out to us more than 30 years ago (you remember the Club of Rome’s “The Limits to Growth” ?), instead of facing up to the problem, we went into collective denial.

 

That is where we still are. But for how much longer? Human survival depends on the answer.

 

The reason that even you at the NYT are in denial is that the struggle for survival and advantage in the socio-economic environment blinds you too to reality (that's a lead you can follow up in previous letters I have sent you, or on my website).