Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda. — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife — Confucius Copy Share Image
Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for. — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as… — Pete Wilson Copy Share Image
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down… — Benazir Bhutto 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
We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource depletion, are all amenable to a fix if we act… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce,… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning… — Muhammad Yunus 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… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors have much to answer for. Why? What did they do? …Long ago, they used machines and drugs to keep the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“This precocious advance may have had a lot to do with the nature of the plain between the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Adolescence is a period of life when the brain is malleable, and it represents a good opportunity for learning and social development.… — John Brockman 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
“Once our ancestors began cultivating land for food, they were running on a wheel, but never fast enough. More land provides more… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of “grow or die,” is a thoroughly impersonal,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Thomas Malthus, was one of the first to analyze the relations between population growth and available resources. At the end of the… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“No civilization can possibly survive to an interstellar spacefaring phase unless it limits its numbers. Any society with a marked population explosion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
“The world is entering a period of stagnation, the new mediocre. The end of growth and fragile, volatile economic conditions are now… — Satyajit Das Copy Share Image
“Unlike human laws (and the Malthusian approach), the natural laws of ecology do not discriminate on the basis of race, status or… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Population growth is not a reason against giving aid but a reason for reconsidering the kind of aid to give.” — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
I do worry about population growth and the preservation of the green belt space but I don't think these are insurmountable problems. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population. — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
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