KALOTICS
What is to be Done With Our World?
Forty Basic Problems and Their Solutions:
Forty Stases and Theses
by Alfred de Grazia
30.
The world grows crowded because of more births, prolonged life-spans, higher physical and social mobility, and desperate urban body-jamming;
economic measures promoting weed-like growth are desperate palliatives with damaging side effects.
World population increase can be halted by medicines, ideological pressures, and especially by licensing births according to a quota based on personal competency and national statistics of support available, while conceding limited rights of healthy motherhood to everyone.