"Those people, because of deforestation, bad agricultural methods and general mismanagement, are eroding away their arable soil at an alarming rate. At the same time, they are breeding like rabbits. In other words, each successive generation has less and less food to divide among more and more people, and for inherited traditional and superstitious reasons, they refuse to adopt any rational program of birth-control and population-limitation. But, fortunately, they now have the atomic bomb, and they are developing radioactive poisons, weapons of mass-effect. And their racial, nationalistic and ideological conflicts are rapidly reaching the explosion point. A series of all-out atomic wars is just what that sector needs, to bring their population down to the worldâs carrying capacity; in a century or so, the inventors of the atomic bomb will be held as the saviors of their species."
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H. Beam Piper
Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 â c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author of future history and alternate history stories.
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