Don’t forget that Asimov was a Navy intel guy whose last book, in the early ‘70s, was about environmentalism and the destructive power of overpopulation.
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What book are you referring to? I don't remember a book like that?
For that matter prominently linked in his "Robots and Empire" novels was the Galactic Capital Planet, Trantor, that was literally one city that encased the whole planet, extended miles deep and had a population of 20 billion. That didn't make the case for environmentalism and the destructive power of overpopulation.