“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
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
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
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
There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase. — Paul Watson 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
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
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
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
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
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of… — George F. Kennan 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
“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 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 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
“Southern California is a landscape of edges and contradictions set upon by a variegated human population that at times seems hell bent… — Penelope Grenoble Copy Share Image
“if that figure stays current, it means the chances of killing off a potential autistic at all is 1 in 64 if… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“In fact, I suspect that our only hope is disaster. Cruel tho' it is to say it, there has got to be… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
“then you basically accept the fact that most of the human population (including yourself) sucks and is worthless. And this mindset can… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of… — Mark Shand 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
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
We are killing our host the planet Earth… I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
“How could you live somewhere so icy cold and imposing, so clearly in conflict with the rest of the city, the rest… — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“In the year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion.1 The total… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
