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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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We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently…
— John Ambrose Fleming
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Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and…
— John Maynard Keynes
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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…
— John Holdren
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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums…
— Jane Jacobs
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What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
— Thomas Sowell
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And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
— John Green
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