Blaming our failures on population size is escapist

By Charles Kanjama

If you only have a hammer, so the saying goes, every problem looks like a nail. Every crisis appears in need of a hammer. Every point needs to be hammered in, and hammered again through repetition. We often underestimate how pervasive this approach is in real life. For example, why does government keep passing regulations? Because for government officials, their basic hammer is regulation and every human failure seems to be crying out for more regulations.