Utopia, Season 2

Milner:
What's wrong with curing malaria? Well wouldn't you want to make the world a better place?

Phillip:
Let me explain something to you. The sun throws a certain amount of energy onto this planet. We turn it into food, clothing, shelter, etc. It supports an amount of us, and it took 30,000 years for that amount to become one billion. Then we found a way to use ancient sunlight, sunlight trapped in oil and coal. We started to live off that. What happened? In just 130 years, our population doubled. The next billion took thirty years. The fourth billion has taken just 14. So here's the question. What do you think is going to happen when that oil and coal runs out in, say, a hundred years? When there's ten billion living on a planet that can support only one?

Milner:
I think we're going to tear each other apart.

Phillip:
At last, someone with an ounce of fucking brain. Malaria? The only disease that needs curing is us.