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
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally — Maurice Strong 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
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools… — Laurie Garrett 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
“In 2006 the planet crossed a remarkable historical threshold, with more than half of the world’s population residing in urban centers, compared… — Geoffrey West 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
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
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
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
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
