John Holdren

Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get…

— John Holdren

People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

— John Holdren

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the…

— John Holdren

Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and…

— John Holdren

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

— John Holdren

The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a…

— John Holdren

In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other…

— John Holdren

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform…

— John Holdren

The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is…

— John Holdren

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might…

— John Holdren

There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…

— John Holdren

We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain…

— John Holdren

To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists…

— John Holdren

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

— John Holdren

A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing…

— John Holdren

The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have…

— John Holdren

When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission…

— John Holdren

Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),…

— John Holdren

I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control.…

— John Holdren

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…

— John Holdren

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against…

— John Holdren

Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…

— John Holdren

The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional…

— John Holdren

The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating…

— John Holdren

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only…

— John Holdren