"And Gulliver Returns" Book 1 Reversing Overpopulation--The Planet's Doomsday Threat
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“Chet, it is more than just reducing population. It’s about making the population mentally, physically and economically healthier. Just look at the number of people in prisons and mental institutions. Some of their propensities are probably genetic. To the degree that genes are responsible perhaps we can either weed the poor risks out of the reproductive population or manipulate the genes once they are born. But for the greater number of people whose poor upbringings did not develop in them sufficient self respect and the capacity to love—we should be able to reduce their percentage. In my mind it is our greatest human tragedy to have children born who are not loved and cared for, who do not have the advantages of an outstanding education. It is an international disgrace to have so much crime committed and to spend so much money on police, the judicial systems and the penal systems. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to put that money into higher education and more extensive recreation facilities?”