Population Quote by Lena Shaw

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

“Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“the rate of population growth observed from 1700 to 2012—0.8 percent per year—were to continue for the next three centuries, the world’s population would…

— Thomas Piketty

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

— Dallas Campbell

“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.”

— Thomas Piketty

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

Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

— Bindi Irwin

“(Take a second look at those figures – human population has increased fourteenfold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There are about 2.5 billion (10^9) seconds in a human lifetime.”

— Caleb Scharf

“Food for thought… It took the earths population thousands of years (from early dawn of mankind to early 1800) to reach 1 billion people.…

— Dan Brown

“On average, every year, thirty-five people in the United States die of the plague; close to two thousand worldwide. But those are hardly frightening…

— Jacqueline Druga

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

— Thomas Malthus