Overpopulation Leads to War (But Why Doesn't Anyone See It?)

The New York Times Magazine recently ran a story about the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a private organization to help defuse the possibility of rogue profiteers selling the material to build nuclear weapons. Sam Nunn thinks it's a real possibility in the cash starved nations of the former Soviet Union. As more and more nations get more and more technology the possibility grows with it that sooner or later someone is going to build a bomb and set it off. Sam Nunn and Ted Turner, spirited public Citizen is that they are, want to head off this possibility. I think they would do more if they would concentrate on overpopulation, which because it leads to too many people competing for the same land and wealth, invariably leads to war. If Nunn and Turner want to make the world safer, they should push Africans to have fewer children, Mexicans to clean up their corrupt society, Asians to stay home, get jobs in auto, TV and computer factories and make themselves rich. There's nothing wrong with limiting the spread of nuclear technology. In fact it's a good idea. But to do that and only that is strictly playing catch-up. The thinking of people like Nunn and Turner has to move upstream to the start of the problem-- the fact there are too many people on too little planet.