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POPULATION QUOTES

 

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Each person we add now disproportionately impacts on the environment and life-support systems of the planet." -- Paul Ehrlich

Those of you who have been fighting, racism, sexism, religious prejudice, gross economic inequality, and similar horrors, have also, in effect, been working at the same time to solve the environmental crisis endangered by population explosion. And since environmental issues and traditional security matters are interconnected, those of you fighting for social justice have also been working indirectly to solve the problem of warfare."
-- Paul Ehrlich

Finally not only economists and ecologists are talking together, but people who are interested in peace are beginning to understand that the environment is a big chunk of [international] security, that population is a big chunk of security.
-- Paul Ehrlich

Basically, then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is a "birth rate solution," in which we find ways to lower the birth rate. The other is a "death rate solution," in which ways to raise the death rate - war, famine, pestilence - find us.
-- Paul Ehrlich The Population Bomb

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.
-- Prof Stephen Hawking

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation."
-- Helen Keller

"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

 

POPULATION QUOTES

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World Population Day - July 11

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