Affected Quote by Ruth Simmons

The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United Nations, with the U.S.…

— Gaylord Nelson

“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

— Talulah Riley

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

— Bill Gates

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

— Abhijit Banerjee

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

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

— Bill McKibben

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration,…

— Susan Oliver

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their…

— Jane Chen

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

— Phil Harding

Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we have to…

— Paul Hawken