Population  

CORONADO

Dream on, girl.

Nobel prize winner Norman Borlaug saved millions in India and Pakistan from starvation in the 1960s by breeding more robust versions of wheat that are also resistant to disease, resulting in greater yields per acre. That’s what everybody started using. But now new diseases attack the new varieties, and there are limits to what improvements in fertilization and irrigation can do. That guy saw his efforts as a stopgap measure to cope with population growth until political leaders could get it under control. He finally gave up on improving agriculture and switched to limiting population.

SINE

China limited one child per family for awhile, but now the worry is not enough workers for China's big economy and take care of all the old people. So now you can have more than one.

CORONADO

Meanwhile, Bill Gates is adored because he’s saving lives from disease around the world.

AURA

There’s got to be an equilibrium.

CORONADO

And what’ll drive it is absolute necessity. You can bank on it.