Increases Quote by Thomas Malthus

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity…

— Thomas Malthus

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

— Thomas Malthus

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period…

— Thomas Malthus

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

— Jeremy Irons

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

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence…

— Thomas Malthus

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought…

— Bill Gates

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

— Garrett Hardin

“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

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

— Garrett Hardin

“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

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a…

— Vandana Shiva