I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth. — James Douglas Copy Share Image
Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and,… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Today there's a new report out about how population growth is going down in the United States. Immigrant women are having fewer… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
“In this century wars will not be fought over oil, as in the past, but over water. The situation is becoming desperate.… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“Seit Jahr und Tag ist notorisch, daß unsere Erde das vorausberechenbare Wachstum der Bevölkerung, die Erschöpfung der natürlichen Ressourcen und die Auszehrung… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“Blankets could be used to stop exponential population growth. If we kept the people warm, maybe they wouldn’t try to heat themselves… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
I do worry about population growth and the preservation of the green belt space but I don't think these are insurmountable problems. — Dominic Grieve 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
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four… — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
“By 2060, India’s economy is projected to be larger than China’s because of its greater population growth. India is forecast to produce… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste.… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Some of those solutions include halting population growth, limiting or eliminating nuclear weapons, developing peaceful means for solving international disputes, reducing our… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
For far too long, our local, state, and federal leaders have neglected to modernize New York City's aging infrastructure to keep pace… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until… — Bernard Chidzero Copy Share Image
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
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