Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds 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
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
“The US has 5 percent of the world’s population, and 25 percent of the world’s prison population.” — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
By the year 2040, the world's population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
“A person living at the poverty line in the U.S. belongs to the richest 14% of the world population; someone earning a… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The idea that more dead babies will reduce world population is nonsense and in fact has the opposite effect. It has been… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“the rate of population growth observed from 1700 to 2012—0.8 percent per year—were to continue for the next three centuries, the world’s… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .… — Jacques Yves Cousteau 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
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
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
“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
“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“According to Annie Leonard of the Story of Stuff Project, in the U.S. we are using more than our share of resources… — Genevieve Parker Hill 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
“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
“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
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The increase in the world's population represents our victory over death. — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
