Markup View

Author: zarpaulus

Aug 5th 2016 at 9:30:50 AM

Frequently combined with PopulationControl.

* A recurring theme in many of Creator/RobertHeinlein's novels, to which the solution is always FasterThanLightTravel:
** When the Howards' families return to Earth at the end of ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' they find that the planet has become so crowded that there's literally no room left for them, fortunately one of the Howards has invented FTL and offers it freely.  Still, in the distant sequel ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'' Lazarus Long mentions in one of his stories that at one point Earth's government declared everyone over 70 to be legally dead in an attempt at population control.
** In ''Literature/TunnelInTheSky'' China apparently conquered Australia and paved over the entire continent to make room for its growing population before the PortalNetwork was developed, now they chuck hordes of settlers to new worlds through the gates.
** In ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' Rico writes an essay on how war is always the result of overpopulation, from the Crusades to the current BugWar.  And that humanity doesn't dare institute PopulationControl else some other species like the Bugs expand first and wipe them out for more real estate.