by 1.7 million a year. Sixty percent are 25 or less. Same across North Africa and the Middle East.

There's my contribution to the environment...

the best thing anyone can do for all the rest of the animals, many of which we'll be driving to extinction the next few decades.

The children being made now will suffer the worst, especially ones in poor countries.

and you'll probably have to go into hiding.

It's sad that that's one of the many dumb reasons we're pressured to make babies, because those others (whoever isn't light-skinned, or Christian) are going to outnumber us.

So many reasons I will NOT give this world to my child.. taking a chance on it being a girl who'd be pressured to make children someday is one of the biggest. I'm just lucky to live where I have a choice, even with the years of mental abuse I've gotten for it, that's just proven to me I'm doing what's right. Billions of women don't have any choice though.

It also explained that Ant the Father had ordained in his wisdom that Othernest pismires should always be the slaves of Thisnest ones. Their beloved country had only one feeding tray at present – a disgraceful state of affairs which would have to be remedied if the dear race were not to perish.

A third statement was that the national property of Thisnest was being threatened. Their boundaries were to be violated, their domestic animals, the beetles, were to be kidnapped, and their communal stomach would be starved. The Wart listened to two of these broadcasts carefully, so that he would be able to remember them afterwards.

The first one was arranged as follows:

A. We are so numerous that we are starving.

B. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving.

C. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously we shall have a right to take other people's stores of seed. Besides, we shall by then have a numerous and starving army.

It was only after this logical train of thought had been put into practice, and the output of the nurseries trebled – both nests meanwhile getting ample mash for all their needs from Merlyn – for it has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else – it was only then that the second type of lecture was begun.

This is how the second kind went:

A. We are more numerous than they are, therefore we have a right to their mash.

B. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal our mash.

C. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one.

D. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive one.

E. We must attack them in self-defence.

F. They are attacking us by defending themselves.

G. If we do not attack them today, they will attack us tomorrow.

H. In any case we are not attacking them at all. We are offering them incalculable benefits.

... or the Jewish world ... or the Hindu world ... or the capitalist world ... or the communist world ... or the ...

Hatrack ('s quote) explains it quite tidily.

Food shortage is another example of how children, especially the poor ones, will be paying the worst for our overpopulation.