Agendas Quote by Helmut Schmidt

As populations continue to increase, and the climate continues to deteriorate, and as people flock in ever increasing numbers to large, underdeveloped cities, the…

— Antonio Guterres

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents,…

— Hari Sreenivasan

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation…

— Barack Obama

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

— Manmohan Singh

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

— Cleve Jones

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon…

— Eduardo Paes

“The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction…

— Ron Nielsen

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by…

— Geoffrey West

The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if…

— F. L. Lucas

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.

— Abhijit Banerjee