Letter to the Editor: Massive New Airport in Area Would Destroy Our Rural Way of Life

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I read a story about the need for another large airport in Washington. Many people are for it, and many are against it. They want it in Southwest Washington if possible. They would like to turn our area into a SeaTac and northern areas. 

Planes put out more pollution than our total cars combined. Can’t you just see hundreds of planes taking flight, spewing the carbon out? 

But wait, they paid a carbon tax, so it is all right for them to do this. 

The money they paid is scrubbing the carbon away. Can’t you see the dollar bills just pulling them out of the air as they trail behind the planes? 

The roads will need to be improved. New schools will have to be built. We will need hundreds, if not thousands, of new homes to be built. Then, new shopping areas with huge parking lots will be built. 

How about the industries coming in to be near the airports? All the new motels and hotels. Huge casinos on tribal lands. Amazing how our politicians talk about reducing carbon fuel, yet they want to increase it immeasurably with hundreds of flights. 

I’ve never seen trees growing on asphalt or concrete, yet these green things produce cooling temperatures and oxygen. Drive through some of our forests in the summer when it is hot. It feels like the temperature drops about 10 degrees when you enter the forest. 



At my age, I won’t be here to see what develops, but do you want to lose the rural way of life we have here? 

Look at Centralia and Chehalis. They are growing. They are still wonderful places to visit and see a way of life that is dying in America. 

It is up to the people in Southwest Washington to decide on their future, not some money-grubbing politician who has forgotten who they are supposed to be representing. Thanks for letting me spout a little.

 

Norman Rivers 

Rochester