Isaac Asimov on Population

Issac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers in the history of the world (over 300 books), and a very great futurist and writer. One of his speeches on world population growth, entitled "The Future of Humanity," can be read >> here. Despite the passage of 30 years Asimov's words still read well. As Asimov notes:

"There is no need to decide whether to stop the population increase or not. There is no need to decide whether the population will be lowered or not. It will, it will! The only thing mankind has to decide is whether to let it be done in the old inhumane method that nature has always used, or to invent a new humane method of our own. That is the only choice that faces us; whether to lower the population catastrophically by a raised death rate, or to lower it humanely by a lowered birth rate. And we all make the choice."