Whenever I think of the population explosion hoax, one memory comes vividly into my mind. The scene is Mother Teresa's children's clinic in Calcutta, we are making the T.V. program called Something Beautiful for God, and she and I are being filmed walking together through the clinic.

To make conversation, I say to her: Mother, in view of the notorious overpopulation of India, is it really worthwhile going to the trouble and expense of trying to salvage these abandoned babies?" For the answer, she picks up one of the babies, a girl so tiny that it seems amazing she can live at all, perhaps salvaged that day from a dustbin.

Holding up the baby, she says exultantly, Look, there's life in her! For me, this episode disposes utterly and for ever of the notion of a population explosion. Yes, there was life in the tiny baby, and life is sacred, and must in all circumstances be cherished as such, being God's creation and so deserving of our love and care.