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John Holdren has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have…
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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…
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There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…
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A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might…
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In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other…
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The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating…
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional…
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…
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Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and…
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If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…
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A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
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Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),…
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
— Bjork
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Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
— Albert Howard
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.…
— Carl Sagan
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We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is…
— Margaret Sanger
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It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels…
— George Sand
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On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
— Margaret Sanger
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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
— William Stanley Jevons
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its…
— Diane Ackerman
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People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are…
— Michael Zaslow
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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
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Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring…
— Selena Fox
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