Unchecked population growth will be checked brutally by nature if not by policy

Evidence

The Nobelist Dr. Henry W. Kendall depicts the tragic human and ecological costs of the population taboo: “If we don’t halt the population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity-and will leave a ravaged world” (John, 2015). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2606

Categorization

• SEED: Potential essay angle: moral disengagement in reverse — the taboo against even discussing population restraint, and who gets moralized for raising it.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2606
• XREF: connects to: Rates of population growth and ecological transformation are themselves exponential. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 81