Monstrous notion
Woodrow J. Hughes takes offense to my assertion that population is not the problem ("Y2K and population," Nov. 2). He misses the point of my letter. That is, there is no way, short of mass murder on the scale of Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China and Pol Pot's Cambodia multiplied a thousand times, to implement the reductions of population he advocates. He wants to reduce the population from its present 6 billion to 1 billion, a die-off of 5 billion humans!

This is a monstrous notion. That is why I ask that he think about the consequences if such a policy were implemented.

He further goes on to say that Y2K (the computer date bug) will result in the deaths of P6B (population 6 billion). Only time will tell whether this prophet of doom and gloom is right on this one. About two months.

Christopher "Kit" Maira, San Fernando