Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?