If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Here's a tricky little question that came in recently "What biological mechanisms would allow us to keep our population at a level compatible with our food supply?" Elaine. What does he mean by "biological mechanisms"? Daniel. I doubt if he knows himself. I think what he means are mechanisms that are not political — for example, government limitations on food production that are not legalistic, like limiting family size by law, and that don't depend on self-restraint, like birth control. Elaine. That still doesn't tell me what a biological mechanism is. Daniel [after some consideration]. I'm beginning to see this as a tendency of yours: to pick out one element of a question and fixate on it. You're not thinking about the question as a whole. Elaine. I guess you're right. How does it go again? Daniel repeats the question. Elaine. Okay... Well, I can see one assumption he's making: that there are biological mechanisms that would allow us to keep our population at a level compatible with our food supply.
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