limit population grow / size

I made a little error during my colony play by not checking the grow speed of my amount of pips.
Since at start mostly not enough pips.
Suddenly i had 2300+ on island map and it looks like it is barely manageable to supply everything.
By not suppling everything it went a little down but within few hours of playing 200-300 minus.
I would welcome a grow limit slider at captains office, where at least towns own grow is limited.
Or that you can send away pips on a dangerous mission to find for example electronics, rubber...not coming back all of them;)