Hunger and poverty Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages,…

— E. F. Schumacher

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the…

— Sharon Gannon

I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly,…

— John Miller

In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In…

— Vandana Shiva

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development…

— Anonymous

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved…

— Robert McNamara

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or…

— Thomas Ferguson

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a…

— Vandana Shiva

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to…

— Vandana Shiva