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  • If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

    Ebola   Wish   Viruses  
  • Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

    War   Humanity   World  
    "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.
  • A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

    Nwo   Eugenics   People  
  • If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

    B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.11, Hackett Publishing
  • If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc
  • 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.

  • The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.

    Military   Two   People  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he is going to steal. When somebody is dying, what does he care if he kills somebody else and gets money to survive? - because lust for life is the basis of all biological growth. A man can do anything to survive.

    Cutting   Men   People  
  • My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.

  • World population needs to be decreased by 50%

  • With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

    Order   Water   Effort  
    Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.
  • Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

    Fear   Real   Grateful  
  • Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

    "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.
  • What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.

    War   Chinese   Balance  
    James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.454
  • We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  • You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

    "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.
  • In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

  • '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.
  • Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

  • Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast.

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

  • It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.

  • The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.

    Men   Rights   Order  
  • 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  
  • You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

  • Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  • Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

  • It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

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