Best Population Growth Quotes
57 Population Growth quotes by 48 unique authors
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Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by…
— Robert McNamara
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By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
— Bill Gates
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The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global…
— Maurice Strong
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We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more…
— Denis Hayes
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If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in…
— Henry W. Kendall
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We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it…
— Bill Gates
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If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution
— Fred Thompson
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Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we…
— Phil Harding
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Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth,…
— Stewart Brand
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.
— Kailash Satyarthi
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The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.
— Emanuel Celler
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Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the…
— James Lovelock
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The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
— David Rockefeller
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In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and…
— Frederick Lenz
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Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect…
— Julian Simon
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Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus…
— Al Gore
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
— Garrett Hardin
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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita…
— Keith Henson
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Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have…
— David Suzuki
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Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower…
— Muhammad Yunus
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The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered…
— Jonathan Franzen
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