Chance Quote by Johan Rockstrom

When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion.…

— Tony Blair

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet…

— David Attenborough

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per…

— Hans Rosling

Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except…

— David Attenborough

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

— Nina Fedoroff

Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and…

— W. S. Merwin

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…

— Lionel Shriver

“While it's certainly true that raising children is a big job and certainly has emotional resonance, it's really hard to intellectually justify the belief…

— Amanda Marcotte

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a…

— Alexandra Paul

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care,…

— Bill Gates

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 don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to…

— Paul R. Ehrlich