When SA lived under apartheid, the ANC told their people to have as many babies as possible, so that the percentage of blacks goes up. It may have been a necessary strategy at the time, but they have run the country for more than 20 years and still refuse to tell their people to cut back. Running out of water and with them now grabbing land from productive farmers, the country will soon be starving.

I want to live forever...but now, I am starting to be glad I am old and don't have many years left. It may be a copout, but I don't want to be a part of the world we have created. As you say, changes could have been brought about humanely, but we are not a humane specie - we only like to think we are.