A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally,… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms. — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it. — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion,… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
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