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
“It is important to remember that it is still only a minority of the world’s population that can be artificially fed from… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“The idea that more dead babies will reduce world population is nonsense and in fact has the opposite effect. It has been… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“the rate of population growth observed from 1700 to 2012—0.8 percent per year—were to continue for the next three centuries, the world’s… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced… — Mira Grant 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
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Though we did have a few main characters in 'Avatar' who represented the non-benders of the world, most of the people we… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“didn’t see any men running about, birthing the world’s population then going on to make supper and tend to the house. Most… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing… — Paul Ray Copy Share Image
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many damn people. You have… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
There's a point at which we have to control our borders. The bottom line is the world is full up and the… — Chris Tarrant 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
