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been hearing for the pest quarter of a century.
Why haven't the leaders of the developing world taken the necessary steps to check their population growth rates? Why are countries with the fastest-growing populations often the least willing to acknowledge the existence of a problem?
One answer is the optimism generated by the American scientific community and development establishment. Year after year, since we initiated the foreign aid crusade, the leadership of the hungry nations has heard that the agricultural profession can solve the food problem if given enough support. It cannot.
A moratorium would not eliminate all foreign assistance. Our government should continue not only to help, but to expand its assistance to those few developing countries with population growth rates lower than the world average. But it should concentrate its assistance on those countries which clearly show through active practices, a determination to decelerate their rate of population growth. The moratorium would affect only these nations which will not do so.
Many will feel that such a moratorium is morally wrong.
Those who feel this way must weigh the morality of the moratorium against the morality of any action which contributes to overpopulation. Overpopulation today makes it impossible for half of those within the hungry nations to have the diet necessary to protect them against debilitating diseases that bring early death. Overpopulation makes whole nations dependent upon the vagaries of the weather to prevent famine in their lands. Overpopulation leads
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