You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity

You cannot do only one thing.

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.