I honestly haven’t laughed this hard for awhile – the banter between marion and davelj is classic! This could seriously be made into a screenplay.

Does anyone have the feeling that if marion and davelj were to ever bump into each other in a coffee shop (both unaware who the other actual was) that it would be the start of a torrid affair.

On a serious note, over population, resource scarcity & depletion are serious concerns. I notice the following core themes:

science vs. intelligent design
conservation/stewardship vs. depletion/dominance
humans as one of many species vs. humans over nature
industrialized nations over the third world
facts vs. ignorance
restraint/we vs. indulgence/me
restrictions vs. freedoms
logic vs. emotion
reality vs. rationalization

The earth is ruled by physical laws which we all have to obey (theoritical physicists excluded). Procreating is hard-wired into us, but we are also rational beings. People should be free to reproduce, but also bear responibility for their actions. Over-population will make life miserable for a subset of the population, we can either mitigate this by acting responsibily on a personal level and also on a policy/political level. Balance is the key. If we don’t proactively take action, nature will (starvation, disease, war) until equilibrium is reached.