Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water. — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox — David Foreman Copy Share Image
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed. — David R. Brower 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
I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone… — John Guillebaud Copy Share Image
Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't… — Bill Maher 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
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The residents of the the town are attracted by the words and the pictures on the signs. They know full well the… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“In the days when money was backed by its face value in silver or gold, there were limits to how much wealth… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“Neddy Nelson: Have you read that Kissinger report he's supposed to have submitted to the National Security Council in 1974? The one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I did not choose to live in Tangier permanently; it happened. My visit was meant to be of short duration; after that… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“Where the republican or limited monarchial tradition is weak, the best of constitutions will not prevent ambitious politicians from succumbing with glee… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“When we can treat all existing persons as human, it will be time enough to think about having more.” — Athelstan Spilhaus Copy Share Image
I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
