Think of Deficits and Excesses
It often-but not always-helps to think in terms of deficit and excess. For
instance:
"There are too many homeless people in the United States."
"The demand for agricultural water is growing faster than our ability to
supply it at an acceptable financial and environmental cost."
"California's population of school-age children is growing at 140,000 per
year, and our ability to develop the physical facilities in which to educate
them is not growing nearly as fast.