Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death. — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less.… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world… — Bertrand Russell 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
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“It is important to remember that it is still only a minority of the world’s population that can be artificially fed from… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into… — Paul Saffo 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
Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing… — Paul Ray Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“didn’t see any men running about, birthing the world’s population then going on to make supper and tend to the house. Most… — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
Though we did have a few main characters in 'Avatar' who represented the non-benders of the world, most of the people we… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or… — Alan Weisman 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
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The whole world population rests on women. You have to start with the woman. And the woman will make her own decisions.… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
“has 4.5% of the world’s population. Americans consume 19% of the world’s energy and 22% of the world’s total annual output of… — John Price Copy Share Image
“If the world’s population had the productivity of the Swiss, the consumption habits of the Chinese, the egalitarian instincts of the Swedes,… — Laurie Ann Mazur Copy Share Image
I always give the analogy of the Earth at Night picture, of 7.3 billion of us, right? And everyone says, "Well, that's… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“A good family farm produces more, in net terms, than the farm family consumes. The good farmer has secured enough land to… — Jørgen Randers Copy Share Image
“Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. Evolution is cyclical. You also have to understand the West and East are only directions,… — Ajay Chaturvedi Copy Share Image
“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“gene, the mutation of whose DNA building blocks accelerated after the split between humans and chimpanzees, around 5.5 million years ago. The… — D.F. Swaab Copy Share Image
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
