[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.