Disaster! The headlines all mention the utter destruction of the world. Their dismal outlooks on the future are often accompanied by generic solution such as; “Recycle”, “Ride a bike”, etc. The novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn the contains the same “Disaster!” message but is accompanied by many unorthodox solutions to the problems which Quinn identifies. One problem addressed is overpopulation. Quinn leaves the solution up to the reader through a binary moral dilemma: sustain the excess population and maintain the problem, or stop aid the people, the poor, and let the populations die off. Yet there is another solution to sustain current population growth and stem the problem.The solution to overpopulation is to cease the segregation of urban,
