We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“(Take a second look at those figures – human population has increased fourteenfold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
“human population growth mushroomed as quality of life plummeted. The shift to agriculture, wrote author Jared Diamond, is a “catastrophe from which… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently,… — Paul Greenberg Copy Share Image
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
“When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
“One way of emphasizing the singularity of the recent past is [..] to observe that the total number of humans ever to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
“The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Unlike human laws (and the Malthusian approach), the natural laws of ecology do not discriminate on the basis of race, status or… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Earth has so much ecological wealth for good health of human population to give that we may forget now to see,but not… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“The sheer weight [of human population] threatens that magnificent kaleidoscope of other living things which also depend on... natural sysytems.” — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
“The monkey population is definitely on the increase, and I wouldn't be surprised if one day it exceeds the human population. Of… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
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