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  • Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

    Doors   Growth   Enemy  
  • Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin

  • In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.

  • 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 securing a sustainable future for us all

  • In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.

  • We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

    Growth   Causes   Facts  
    Source: edition.cnn.com
  • Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots!

  • Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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 the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.

    "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.
  • The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

    "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.
  • Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

    Jobs   Average   Growth  
  • The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  • The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

    "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.
  • Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

    "For Environmentalists, a Growing Split Over Immigration". Interview with Brad Knickerbocker, www.csmonitor.com. May 12, 2006.
  • Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

    War   Long   Growth  
  • It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

  • People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

  • Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

  • Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

    God   Numbers   Stupidity  
  • Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

  • A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

    Years   Growth   Usual  
  • Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

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

    "Bill Gates' Q&A with Chris Anderson: Video unveiled". blog.ted.com. February 6, 2009.
  • Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In The Ingenuity Gap he wants us all to wake-up to the fearful possibility that our blithe trust in science and technology may be misplaced. Human ingenuity may not be capable of coping with two emerging crises of this century and the next: population growth and environmental despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's wake-up call and you will see the future very differently.

  • The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. ... Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.

    Two   Growth   Next  
    "French Nobel Biologist Says World Based On Chance". "The New York Times", (p. 6), www.nytimes.com. March 15, 1971.
  • As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

    Mother   Issues   Leader  
  • The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.

    "Fidel Castro". Book by Enrique Meneses, 1968.
  • Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

  • The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.

    Land   People   Growth  
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