The best humane way to reduce overpopulation in the world is to raise the standard of living of the poorest populations in the world. When people's standard of living and their economic security goes up, their birthrate goes down.

What we need is a worldwide Bill of Rights, a worldwide decently adequate minimum wage that's the same everywhere, worldwide employment in decent jobs, a wordwide level of good education available to all people........we need EQUALITY. And I don't mean forced equality....and I don't mean everyone made to be at the same material level....I mean equal opportunity and equal social services for everyone from the getgo.

That can only be achieved if we become a single united human race on this planet and get beyond our presently divided tribal and national consciousness.

It ain't gonna happen soon. But that would be the real moral solution to the overpopulation problem.

I find it strange that when we write science fiction stories about other worlds, we usually imagine the beings on them to be living as a single, united society rather than split up into warring little tribes and nations.

That's because it's eventually natural for a single race of beings on a planet to unite into one harmonious society...and we know that deep in our hearts.

If they don't do so, they will end up destroying one another when their weapons, number, and technology get too overwhelming.

That, I think, is the choice that is before us now. Unite and prosper....or stay divided and go down to misery and destruction.