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   Asimov believed that "science fiction ... serve[s] the good of humanity". He   
   considered himself a feminist even before women's liberation became a   
   widespread movement; he argued that the issue of women's rights was closely   
   connected to that of POPULATION    
   CONTROL. Furthermore, he believed that homosexuality must be considered a   
   "moral right" on POPULATION GROUNDS, as must all consenting adult sexual   
   activity that does not lead to reproduction. He issued many appeals for   
   POPULATION CONTROL, reflecting a    
   perspective articulated by people from Thomas Malthus through Paul R. Ehrlich.   
      
   Asimov's defense of civil applications of nuclear power, even after the Three   
   Mile Island nuclear power plant incident, damaged his relations with some of   
   his fellow liberals. In a letter reprinted in Yours, Isaac Asimov, he states   
   that although he would    
   prefer living in "no danger whatsoever" than near a nuclear reactor, he would   
   still prefer a home near a nuclear power plant than in a slum on Love Canal or   
   near "a Union Carbide plant producing methyl isocyanate", the latter being a   
   reference to the    
   Bhopal disaster.   
      
   In the closing years of his life, Asimov blamed the deterioration of the   
   quality of life that he perceived in New York City on the shrinking tax base   
   caused by the middle-class flight to the suburbs, though he continued to   
   support high taxes on the    
   middle class to pay for social programs. His last nonfiction book, Our Angry   
   Earth (1991, co-written with Frederik Pohl), deals with elements of the   
   environmental crisis such as OVERPOPULATION, oil dependence, war, global   
   warming, and the destruction of    
   the ozone layer. In response to being presented by Bill Moyers with the   
   question "What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if   
   this POPULATION GROWTH continues at its present rate?", Asimov responded:   
      
   "It's going to destroy it all ... if you have 20 people in the apartment and   
   two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the   
   bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times   
   for each person, you    
   have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same   
   way, democracy cannot survive OVERPOPULATION. Human dignity cannot survive it.   
   Convenience and decency cannot survive it. AS YOU PUT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE   
   ONTO THE WORLD, THE    
   VALUE OF LIFE NOT ONLY DECLINES, BUT IT DISAPPEARS."   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov   
      
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