Bears Quote by Thomas Malthus

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

— Thomas Malthus

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

— Vandana Shiva

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

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

— Thomas Malthus

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

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

— Adam Smith

“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still outpaced the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

— Robert Bork

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to…

— Vandana Shiva

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or…

— Robert McNamara

In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of…

— David Attenborough

Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival…

— William Ralph Inge