Empirical studies in demography, which is turning to be an exact science, can actually pinpoint within a small margin of error who will be marginalized, when and where and to what extent will their suffering be. Marginalization and suffering are costs of evolution but the process of evolution itself finds ways to minimize suffering in the process of exclusion. Mankind can utilize cultural by-products like religion and technology in order to answer rationally the question, "Where are you, homo moralis et technicus, in the face of mega-threats that include overpopulation?" Let it not be said that humans fail to minimize suffering when it was in their power to do so.  

doi: 10.3860/hapag.v5i1.927

Hapag 5, No. 1-2 (2008): 171-180