• Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.

    Aldous Huxley: Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be
 done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We
 are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand,
 birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.