Kirill Benediktov. The war for "Asgard" (№ 201015)

- We had too much thirty years ago, and then we decided to build a Wall. The wall that will forever divide humanity into pure and impure, giving first happy to live in a rich, well-built world and not depend on uncontrolled reproduction second. Then the Wall seemed to be the panacea for most gravitating over humanity curses. But thirty years have passed... and today, when we stand on the threshold of one of the greatest events in history, I want to open you one secret. WE STILL HAVE TOO MANY.
Camera, not looking up, watched him, journalists hung on his every word. The corner of his eye al-Sabah noticed that slowly turns purple the face of Mobiliser, stunned by such flagrant violation of the Treaty.
Thirty years ago the main danger to the West was considered as China and India, whose population was nearing three billion. The epidemic and horrible environmental catastrophe has reduced this figure almost ten times. But even after that the need to build a Wall for some reason not anymore.
Now we are going to send into the unknown fact or two, or three billion inhabitants of the isolate Tollan. We don't even know their exact number - because the truth is, it's not too interested. Humanity will get rid of ballast, we are told the leaders of the West. Well, maybe so. But how many of us will remain after the isolate Tollan, together with the surrounding Wall will disappear from our world?
He paused to take a deep breath. He saw a puzzled face, wide-open eyes, he felt growing in the hall voltage. A little more - and they will not stand, thought al-Sabah. It's time to finish.
- We will continue to be too many, ' he replied to a question that asked himself. - We will ALWAYS be too much. The truth is that the problem of overcrowding faced by humanity, even in the days when all land belonged to two brothers - Abel and Cain.