Century Quote by John Holdren

Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally,…

— John Holdren

People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

— John Holdren

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is…

— John Holdren

Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental…

— John Holdren

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

— John Holdren

The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of…

— John Holdren

In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal…

— John Holdren

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the…

— John Holdren

The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much…

— John Holdren

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier…

— John Holdren

There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion,…

— John Holdren

To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority…

— John Holdren