Population Quotes

1295 Population quotes by 931 unique authors

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing… — Lionel Shriver
Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that… — Unknown Author
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers? — Phil Harding
Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally — Maurice Strong
Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it — Phil Harding
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to… — Helen Mirren
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable — Jeremy Irons
Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin — Phil Harding
Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife? — David Attenborough
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented… — Jeffrey Sachs
It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context… — Phil Harding
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature — Al Gore
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — Albert Allen Bartlett
The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live — Julius Nyerere
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or… — Albert Allen Bartlett
There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure… — Unknown Author
I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population — David Attenborough
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… — David Attenborough

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