We will reproduce

 I have just read an extremely well researched piece on human population control - the medical solution. (Contraception etc, and in particular the reluctance of females to use it; not males, you understand!)



The problem seems to me to be that such a huge
majority of good people do not consider that there is one! This is not a case of
the ignorance of the less developed peoples. The overwhelming majority of the
developed world also profess not to understand it - or worse, to believe it does
not - cannot - must not be a brake on their own 
sexual/progenital instincts.



Elected governments that should presumably show
leadership are afraid to do so, merely following the majority when it comes to
such personal and population matters, especially at election time.



We all know how difficult a subject is population
control. How many of us are truly incapable of thinking of this thing
subjectively when all that most can or want to 'see' is the loveliness of their
own infant off-spring? (In case you are wondering, I speak as the proud father
of four, albeit engendered in less knowledgable times). Or in the case of, say
Indians and Africans, when all they 'see' is that loveliness plus the number of
their offspring who will be there to support them financially and emotionally in
their old age?



So the answers cannot lie in the spreading of
medical understanding and the private practice of contraception. If
there are any answers other than the obviously cataclysmic ones, they must lie
in the re-modelling of human instinct, emotion and habit. Without Chinese style
government this is probably impossible even for many generations to come -
generations that, logically, may not even exist as things are going right now..




I look out every day over a sea loch and the
ancient Torridian mountains of Wester-Ross. A landscape unchanged since before
the first foot of Man walked this Earth. It will be the same long after our
species has either decided to limit itself or disappears forever in the manner
of so many other life-forms. The big difference
of course is that we are the only species of life on Earth that has been or is
now capable of self-control. Just a matter of exercising it!