The lack of population control will turn out to be the number one reason humans suffer a tortuous exit from the world's stage. No person wants to make the hard calls, but we are not rapdily increasing our resources, medical knowledge, or the world's standard of living, just our population, and many drains on humanity (crime; air, water, land and noise pollution; warfare, etc..) More people need more, less people need less. Logical, but brutal in implementation. For example, if you save the starving children, the really badly malnourished ones who have been like that way for years, they will be a drain on society, because their formative brain years will be behind them, and those years were less than sub-standard. One African leader said they, the saved ones, were little more than zombies in his country, with such low mental capacity as to drain the nation, keeping the country continually poor, ecnomically, spiritually, and mentally. Letting them die was seen as one step toward salvation, while also pouring money into pre-natal care, and making sure that the people, while not as numerous, were better taken care of. To implement such an undertaking would be so cruel and so inhumane, that it would never fly. (The African leader did not go about letting his people die.) That does not mean, however, that the problem would take flight and not bother us any more. That is just one scenario. How do you keep people from having so many babies? Is educating them enough? This would need to be a worldwide undertaking. Mother Earth has too many people, and lessening water. How do you think that play out? Civility and all still there? What do we do?

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