The world can even double its population. As long as it shows signs of common sense and seeks the adequate path for survival. The key is to understand that our world is a single living being, where all the parts are inseparable. If one of these parts suffers from hunger and is threatened by death and will rot in misery, the whole of the organism is menaced by the same infection.5

High birth rates in underdeveloped countries obey the same biological law: it is a natural effort of the human components to try and survive, for their death rates are almost as high. The only way these groups can survive the so called anti-economical cycle of the underdeveloped countries and perpetuate is through excess population - for most of the ones born are destined to die and not to live.4

Demographic explosion can increase hunger, for it delays the raising of living standards. But it is not the cause for it. Hunger is the result of defective economic structures and not of unconquerable natural barriers.4

Demographic explosion - no doubt about it - worsens the current feeding status of the world today, but the influence attributed to it is bigger and more negative then its true role in development.4

The economic distance between the group of rich and well fed countries and the poor and starving ones is far from closing. Quite the contrary: it's getting larger every day. Thus we cannot be fooled by the idea that the fight against underdevelopment will bring results in a short term; that we will testify the improvement of the population's feeding status so fast and that this will be followed by the vanishing of the spectrum of hunger from the face of earth. This whole image is very remote, specially when we think that demographic explosion - an unprecedented growth in the number of people in our history - will still aggravate the food distribution unbalance between available resources and biological needs of these populations undergoing overwhelming growth.4

I only know one demographic policy that seems safe: to make the individuals themselves aware that large families have no reason to exist nowadays... Today everything has changed; you no longer need ten children, but only three. If people become aware of this, demographic balance will be reestablished.13