My basic thesis based on studies beginning with the Club of Rome’s “Limits of Growth” to Joan Williams’ 2025 book “Outclassed” is that the key to almost every problem (personal, social, economic, political, and environmental) from war, to illegal immigration, to inflation, to growing inequality, to dehumanization, to personal psychological issues, to excessive poverty and wealth, relates to overpopulation, and the ever increasing and excessive drive for economic growth and overconsumption.

But if those are the most basic sources of all of our personal and societal problems, why haven’t we adopted the obvious solutions to those problems — fewer children, end less consumption?

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