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John
Philip
overcrowded
overpopulation
mankind
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Concerning the overpopulation problem, remember that more than physical mechanisms are involved. The problem will be solved by mankind indeed; but mankind is composed of reincarnational entities. It is quite within the probabilities that the statistics will reverse themselves and that for no reason that scientists can discover, children are born stillborn, as in a mass epidemic, and that entities simply refuse to inhabit the bodies made for them. The bodies then remaining empty to decay unused. (What a grim situation, I thought.)
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
As a matter of fact there has been such a population problem in the past, in your terms, on several occasions and involving your planet. An earthwide epidemic took place on one occasion. On another occasion the number of conceptions was drastically reduced. The women’s fear of bearing children alone made them barren when starvation loomed. The third time artificial means were utilized to prevent birth.
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