Population growth is the primary source of environmental…

Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved…

— Robert McNamara

“Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our planet. It…

— Alan Weisman

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the…

— Isaac Asimov

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like…

— Albert Allen Bartlett

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at…

— Stephen Hawking

And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny…

— Pat Buchanan

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to…

— Michael J. Silverstein

Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work.…

— Ben Goldacre

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been…

— Arjun Makhijani

We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would…

— Robert F. Engle

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but…

— Margaret Beckett