Last December's production of Lungs by Macmillan, who has known Mitchell ever since he appeared in a student production of hers aged eight, told the story of a young couple worrying about having a baby in a era of global warming and overpopulation.
"Psychotic and dangerous, this book encourages parents to lower the burden of overpopulation by having their child deliberately incur a horrifying and frequently fatal disease," found a third.
In the Sundarbans region, overpopulation is pushing people closer to the boundaries of the parks where the tigers live.
I for one cannot understand how the 'badger lobby' seem to mind not at all about the slaughter of thousands of expensive cattle, and yet object to a managed cull of an overpopulation of badgers.
This, of course, is ridiculous, equivalent to blaming checkout counter lines on overpopulation.
On the other hand, it has always been a mystery to me why so many people and institutions fail to recognise that the main problem of our earth is human overpopulation.
That book, and the related Club of Rome movement of the 1970s, famously predicted that overpopulation would soon result in the world running out of food, oil and other resources.
The map of abortion laws in your article highlighted those countries that either prohibit abortion altogether or restrict it severely, and is almost identical to regions that are distressed from overpopulation.
Indeed, the main threat in Botswana, southern Mozambique, parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe is arguably not poaching but overpopulation.
Conversations about the perceived threat of overpopulation often turn ugly, or, as Mr Jacoby points out, nonsensical.
The findings of (particularly feminist) scholars studying "overpopulation" have determined that high birth rates are the result of poverty, not the other way around.Education, particularly for girls, increased autonomy for women and improved economic opportunities for those who live in poverty have a direct impact on the fertility rate of a population.
