the population crisis is here now, and it is the destruction of present and future civilizations. the world has two choices. either we drastically alter our concepts of marriage and child bearing and the customs attached to them, to where we have but two children per family, or the wealthy continue to devour the poorat an ever increasing rate. at the same time, the environment will steadily grow worse, thus being able to support fewer and fewer people. why is there a crisis and what has brought it about? the principal reason for the current overpopulation of people in the world is that through man’s intellect, science and technology, we have achieved a low death rate. the control of untimely death by scientifically applied humanitarianismhas created a monster. babies now have a much greater chance of living long enough to produce children in turn—hence a population explosion. not long ago, 250 to 300 out of every 1,000 babies born died in infancy; now from four-fifths to nine-tenths of the babies who used to die survive. if we are going to have a low death-rate culture —and, of course, we all want our babies to live –then we must also adopt a low birth-rate culture. if babies of the future are to live, there must be fewer of them. no matter how much food there is, it is obvious that the birth rate cannot continue to exceed the death rate.

1. attached them: 여기에서 them이 marriage와 child bearing을 가리키는 것이 맞나요?
2. to where ~ 부분: 잘 모르겠습니다.
3. being able to support: being이 된 이유를 모르겠네요.
4. applied humanitarianism: applied가 수식하는 게 뭔가요?
5. produce children: 주어인 babies가 커서 아이를 낳는 것을 의미하는 건가요?
6. die survive:survive가 본동사로 -과거에 죽곤 했던 아기의 4/5~ 9/10가 현재 살아남는다. 이렇게 해석되는 게 맞나요?6군데 질문합니다. 문법적으로도 어려워서 해석이 잘 안됩니다. 도움 주세요. 감사합니다.