Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda. — Helmut Schmidt 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
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi 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
Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it… — Henry W. Kendall Copy Share Image
We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of… — Mechai Viravaidya Copy Share Image
The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we… — Maurice Strong 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
People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a… — Ian Goldin 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
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
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
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
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children… — Hans Rosling 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 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
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible… — Michael Ignatieff 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
“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
“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
“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
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam 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
“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental… — Jacqueline Kasun 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
“About 4,400 years ago 8 people stepped off Noah’s ark. According to the United Nations Population Growth Statistics, the world’s population grows… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
“the consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in any that has come before. It’s perilous and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I know that the consequences of scientific illiteracy are far more dangerous in our time than in any that has come before.… — Carl Sagan 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
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