Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (383) lyrics

"The real problem, though," Katz said, "is free-market capitalism. Right? Unless you're talking about outlawing reproduction, your problem isn't civil liberties. The real reason you can't get any cultural traction with overpopulation is that talking about fewer babies means talking about limits to growth. Right? And growth isn't some side issue in free-market ideology. It's the entire essence. Right? In free-market economic theory, you have to leave stuff like the environment out of the equation. What was that word you used to love? 'Externalities'?" "That's the word, all right," Walter said.