Bad Quote by Alex Tabarrok

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a…

— Vandana Shiva

“It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic…

— Anonymous

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as…

— Julian Simon

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to…

— Prince Philip

I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly,…

— John Miller

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

— Tom Scholz

“Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products – contributing to economic growth…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing,…

— Larry Page

People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population…

— Ian Goldin

There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom,…

— Tim Jackson