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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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To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is…
— Olivia Newton-John
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No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness…
— Dalai Lama
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Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human…
— Karl-Henrik Robert
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now…
— Billy Joel
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This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or…
— Abraham Maslow
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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
— Jimmy Carter
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The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.
— Dalai Lama
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Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement…
— Toby Hemenway
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There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.
— Banksy
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We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.
— Jay Inslee
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