Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds 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
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children.… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“About one-sixth of the world’s population, over a billion people, lack access to safe water.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
There's a point at which we have to control our borders. The bottom line is the world is full up and the… — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many damn people. You have… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste.… — Albert Allen Bartlett 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
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
This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The world population is nearing seven billion. John Travolta and Farrah Fawcett didn’t procreate and produce all seven thousand million of us.… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“On an average day, 324,000 new babies are born into the world every day. During that same day, 10,000 persons, on an… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“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
Since girls and women represent 50 percent of the world population, enabling them to participate in their local economies helps broaden the… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time -… — Martin Sorrell 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
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
“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
We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day. — James Wolfensohn 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
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 total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal. — Ted Turner 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
It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. — Henry W. Kendall Copy Share Image
The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates. — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
