If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

One way of avoiding the trap would be to keep net population growth very low, although there might then perhaps be dangers associated with the stagnation of the civilization. Another would be to constrain growth once the limits of resource are reached, but to allow rapid growth at the frontier.

How to avoid