"Some of us, most of us, are in the government. But there’s not any government in the world that can stand up publicly, and say coldly and openly, that the eight billion people on this collapsing planet are at least four billion people too many. Jane, each year, every year, there are enough children born on Earth to equal the entire population of Mexico. That’s insanely far too many, and it’s been like that for eighty years now. The situation is so desperate that working to solve it is like joining a bomb squad. Every year a bomb explodes, and it’s a bomb made of human flesh, and every human splinter in that bomb means extinction and carbon dioxide and toxins and methane and pesticides and clearcutting and garbage and further decline. There were a lot of ways out once, but there are no more alternatives now. Just people who will probably survive, and people who probably won’t."