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
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
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
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
“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
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
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov 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
While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of… — Michael Erard Copy Share Image
“wherever they live, travel, hike, swim, fish, dive, kayak, or trek, they risk being confronted by something capable of doing them in… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Of course, the methods for human population control are enormously controversial. One contraceptive measure seems to be humane and acceptable: If you… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes 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
“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
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
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
“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“After a long analysis of Robson’s suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
