Lionel Shriver

This is especially in the U.S.

right now.

The U.S.

always asks us if we can increase our population.

It's related to immigration because it's demography.

We think that we can absorb an infinite number of people and keep growing the population indefinitely.

There was even a book published not that long ago about one billion Americans, and it was amazing.

That was supposed to be a positive vision.

The biggest limitation on whole sections of the United States is groundwater, is fresh water, and we're sucking out the aquifers.

And nobody talks about it.