| Show Birth Control Necessary sterilization or birth To have choose between the three above alternatives for most be equivalent to choosing between the hangman's the gas chamber or the hot Although we won't have to make such a choice during our there is a good possibility that our grandchildren as I hope we the possibility of a population check a la nuclear it appears to us that some method has to be and to check the number of children who reach maturity without a humanity is going to take a giant step backwards to the stone age where population can be relegated to survival of the It is a pity man's sexual appetite hasn't kept pace with our advanced Apparently our sex drives were designed for a society in which two out of three children died at birth and where the longevity expectation was thirty With the gigantic medical advances of the past the birth mortality is almost obsolete and our life expectancy has Unfortunately fortunately depending on how you look at our sexual appetites have not decreased in proportion to the decreased mortality Some Flash Gordon space-promoters might argue that the world's population problem will be solved by interplanetary this isn't Even if the planets were the relief would be a temporary History our shows that colonists reproduce much faster than settled populations and rapidly fill up the available Since we discount war and pestilence as a possible population check and since we can't rely on other worlds to provide us with an outlet for our teeming we must look to mankind to halt the snowballing overpopulation by a deliberate attempt to change its sex In writing for author Arthur C. Clarke feels that the time is near when families must be restricted to two He depressing this situation may appear to it is one which our descendants will have to face unless humanity goes bock to the Stone Age via and disease and starts all over Population control may be accomplished in at least three by this every child over the permissible quota of perhaps two would be It might be a better some if the children are allowed to reach Then society can bump off the couples would be sterilized after the second This isn't a bad idea except a couple whose quota of children died would be in the unfortunate position of dying sans A modification of this method would be to or seriously fine any parents who exceeded their baby The only drawback here would be that the emotional strain would be so great the whole culture would probably go to Birth as far as we can this is the only sensible Disregarding the religious aspects of birth-control have a to change under threat of race we think voluntary birth control should seriously be considered as an answer to the overpopulation It is senseless to burden poverty stricken people with large families which they cannot It isn't fair to the to society and especially to the some world leaders the Far are doing something about this Recently European laboratories successfully developed a contraceptive pill with an aphrodisiac added to make it We won't have to worry about exhausting the world's resources in our anyone concerned with his progeny should seriously consider the problems that will face them unless do something about man's prolific tendency to inundate the world with children at a rate that would put rabbits to |
