Ehrlich also advocates subsidized adoption and devising a simpler adoption procedure. However radical, implementation and participation in these ideas would undoubtedly help to curb population growth rates. The ultimate goal of the fight against overpopulation is a stable population, a population in which the number of births equals the number of deaths. If more couples had only two children, the population growth rate would approach zero, stabilizing the population. The implementation of such policies would of course invoke much criticism.
Conservatives already object to a government so involved in the public's personal lives.
In addition, citizens would surely object to policies which punish them for having children. Without support of the people, Ehrlich's ideas couldn't survive in Congress. However, as overpopulation begins to threaten people's lifestyle, policies such as these have an increasing likelihood of public acceptance. Despite growing populations, there are some scholars who insist that overpopulation is not a problem. They believe that the problem will solve itself through survival of the fittest, or they assume that technology will continue to solve the problems of overpopulation.