Texas was a much better state 40 years ago, who wants to measure the effects of the left importing mass populations to our once beautiful nation, by laboratory standards of whether we can sustain ourselves with food and water.
Americans used to love our wide open spaces and the ability to live in our largest cities, yet go hunting and fishing and camping, within minutes of our homes.
Now we have pro-immigration elements that keep pointing out that science and advancements can enable us to live right on top of each other and still squeeze in plenty more, endlessly.
A 1960 American knew that one reason that life in India and China was miserable compared to ours, was population. Now ours is getting close to what India was in 1960.
Chesterton on birth control/population control:
In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”