Billion Quote by Ban Ki-moon

Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we…

— John Beddington

This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort.…

— Eric Pianka

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or…

— Paul Polman

For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change, growing scarcity…

— Ban Ki-moon

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8…

— E. O. Wilson

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life…

— Stewart Udall

We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the coming years

— Hiroyuki Watanabe

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment…

— Stephen Hawking

The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling…

— Paul Hawken

We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with…

— David Grinspoon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between…

— Ban Ki-moon

We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

— Jaggi Vasudev