"In spite of everything he said, I felt sure he was showing us that our population explosion is a social problem, like, say, crime or race schism. I failed to hear him say that our population explosion is a biological problem, that if we pursue a policy that would be fatal for any species, then it will fatal for us in exactly the same way. We canât will it to be otherwise. We canât say, âWell, yes, our civilization is built on an evolutionarily unstable strategy but we can make it work anyhow, because weâre humans.â The world will not make an exception for us. And of course what the Church teaches is that God will make an exception for us. God will let us behave in a way that would be fatal for any other species, will somehow âfix itâ so we can live in a way that is in a very real sense of self-eliminating. That is like expecting God to make our airplanes fly even if theyâre aerodynamically incapable of flight."
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Daniel Quinn
Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 â February 17, 2018) was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.
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