‘Us. We are the ones who artificially expand the food base in these countries, we are the ones who ensure millions who would otherwise die live on long enough to procreate, thus ensuring there will be even more mouths to feed next year, and the year after that.’
‘Excuse me, but what you’re saying is that by helping these people we are actually harming them? I find it hard, as I’m sure our viewers would, to believe that, Professor.’
‘It’s basic population logic, Frank, but because we see ourselves not as animals but as humans, we think that the rules that apply to every other animal on the planet don’t apply to us. But they do.’
‘Well, most of our viewers would concede that we are animals first and foremost, but our brains are such that we have choices—can engineer our own choices, if yo
