Human Population Quotes - Page 2

• The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

  E. O. Wilson

  Cutting, Science, Diversity

  "The Diversity of Life". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1992.

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• The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Two, Excess Baggage, People

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• What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.

  Bill Nye

  Girl, Kids, Successful

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• With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Technology, Sea, Land

  Jacques Yves Cousteau (1975). “The act of life”, ABRAMS

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• While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, Land, Ecosystems

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• The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Population

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• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  David Foreman

  Aids Epidemic, Epidemics, Population

  "Are There Just too Many People in the World?" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

  Terence McKenna

  Ego, Males, Population

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• The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate.

  Sharon Gannon

  Growth, Population, Needs

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

  Sharon Gannon

  Meat Eating, Growth, Population

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.

  Paul Watson

  Long, Population, Increase

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• Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable exploitation of species and habitat resources, and of course, human population explosion. All of these factors work together and conspire to drive a species to extinction on our planet, every half an hour.

  Jeff Corwin

  Loss, Perfect, Storm

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• The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Technology, Self

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Distance, Independent

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Ecosystems, People, Community

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• 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.

  M. King Hubbert

  Years, Growth, Population

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• To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

  Norman Borlaug

  Lakes, Luxury, Rivers

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Intelligence, Population

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• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  Ralph Merkle

  People, Population, Today

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• The optimum human population of earth is zero.

  David Foreman

  Zero, Animal, Population

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• I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Desire, Population, Underwater

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• By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

  James Lovelock

  Eugenics, Climate, Population

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• We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Real

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