We have a Two-Deck Spaceship (1975)
We have a two-deck spaceship. The temperate zones, roughly, are a rich upper deck and the tropics are a poor lower deck. A piece of the lower deck, (OPEC) controls part of the fuel supply and is getting a monopoly price, but this won't last long. The upper deck is stabilizing its population and has great adaptability. It faces acute problems, but has great problem-solving ability. The lower deck is already greatly over-crowded. (Bangladesh is the same as Iowa and has 77 million people to Iowa's 2.8 million.) It has little problem-solving capacity and often intervention from the top deck makes things worse rather than better.
"Love and Lifeboats" Chapel Talk, Gstavs Adolphs College, St. Peter, Minnesota, Nov 18, 1975