After reading The Story of B, I understand that we can stop population growth in its tracks by putting a cap on food production, but as a practical matter, how would you do that?

Wouldn’t this be just as intrusive and difficult as global enforcement of birth control?

The problem with birth control is NOT that it is “intrusive and difficult” but rather that it doesn’t work.

I have no program to propose regarding control of food production.

I’m bringing forward facts to be dealt with. I’m like Einstein coming forward with his famous equation—and you (and many others who ask the same question) are like people responding with, “Yes, but how do you propose to build an atomic bomb?” Einstein wasn’t an engineer—and neither am I.

My task is to put the facts before the public—is to persuade the public that they ARE facts. (Just as it was Einstein’s task to persuade the public that energy really IS equal to mass times the speed of light squared.)

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Posted: 08 Feb 1997