How silly of me.

Governments are actually anti-evolutionary. They subsidize failure at the expense of the successful at all levels. Natural order is disallowed; we’re reaping those rewards now.

Again, there have been 200 years of doomsayers telling us that the population limit was looming in the near future. I doubt that is the case. The rate of population growth has slowed in the industrialized world. I don’t know when or if peak carrying capacity will be reached, but I don’t expect to see it in my lifetime.

I fear government power more than I fear the population bomb.

There are little hints of problems.
My well now runs dry during summer.
It’s harder to buy affordable beautiful large land parcels. Texas hill country is being subdivided. World species extinction has risen due to habitat loss and poaching. The island of Hispanolia, Easter Island, St. Matthew’s Island are examples of life at carrying capacity and extinction. We’re maybe globally centuries off, but it is happening.

The $64M question is what will happen after peak oil? The Haber-Bosch process produces the bulk of modern plant fertilizer from natural gas. Mankind’s population has exploded in the last 150 years due to energy use of fossil fuels. Are we already beyond carrying capacity without this energy?

I just finished a math book chapter last night about Verhulst rate equations and phase diagrams. I did some predator-prey programming models for fun a few years ago. Fast reproducing species without predators go extinct.

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970′s the world will undergo famines–hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to “stretch” the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food production. But these programs will only provide a stay of execution unless they are accompanied by determined and successful efforts at population control. Population control is the conscious regulation of the numbers of human beings to meet the needs, not just of individual families, but of society as a whole.

Nothing could be more misleading to our children than our present affluent society. They will inherit a totally different world, a world in which the standards, politics, and economics of the 1960′s are dead. As the most powerful nation in the world today, and its largest consumer, the United States cannot stand isolated. We are today involved in the events leading to famine; tomorrow we may be destroyed by its consequences.

Our position requires that we take immediate action at home and promote effective action worldwide. We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail. We must use our political power to push other countries into programs which combine agricultural development and population control. And while this is being done we must take action to reverse the deterioration of our environment before population pressure permanently ruins our planet. The birth rate must be brought into balance with the death rate or mankind will breed itself into oblivion. We can no longer afford merely to treat the symptoms of the cancer of population growth; the cancer itself must be cut out. Population control is the only answer.

You will not live long enough to see the planet anywhere near its carrying capacity. Alarmism about overpopulation has been ongoing since Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population in the early 1800s. In the mean time, having the government decide who gets to procreate is nightmarish.

Mankind like any other species will reproduce until environmental constraints impose limits. Those limits can be unpleasant. I would much rather live on an earth that was not near its carrying capacity, retaining some natural beauty.
However, government would be the worst entity to limit population.