Your editorial on the inland port (“Port whine,” Dec. 14) claims that advocates “keep comparing it to Kansas City, but Kansas City has something Salt Lake City never will — a river to the sea.”
Having recently been to the Utah Museum of Natural History with my dinosaur-loving daughter, I am compelled to remind you that much of Utah was in fact covered by oceans as recently as 200 million years ago. Perhaps the seas will come again in another 200 million years.
If they do, future generations may well end up celebrating port advocates for their visionary leadership and for their willingness to see beyond the short-term air-quality concerns of those of us who just happen to be alive right now.
Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., Salt Lake City
