Well . . . here's one way of looking at it. From watching nature programs on PBS, one learns that all species on earth have other species that act as population controls. For example, if it weren't for lions and cheetahs and such, we'd be ass-deep in gazelles. Being the very apex of the chain of evolution and superior to all the other species on this planet (or so we are told), there is nothing out there to control our population.

So we have to do it ourselves. Perhaps that's the natural order of things. . . .    :-/

Don Firth