Overpopulation Quotes

• Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Democracy, Population

  Interview with Bill Moyers on PBS miniseries "A World of Ideas" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 17, 1988.

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Population, Lasts

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• Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Growth, Environmental, Population

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• Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Population Problem, Environmental, Today

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• Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

  Albert Einstein

  Country, People, Population

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• I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

  David Foreman

  Believe, Ebola, Fundamentals

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• Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, War, Cutting

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “The secret of the universe”, Doubleday Books

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• Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

  Jane Goodall

  Successful, Fantastic Life, Years

  Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.

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• I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Fighting, Practice

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.416, Princeton University Press

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• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  Dan Brown

  Issues, Futurist

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• There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Oil, Water, Substitutes

  Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich (1991). “The population explosion”, Touchstone Books

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• Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

  David R. Brower

  Political, Immigration, Problem

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• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

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• In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

  Prince Philip

  Death, Suicide, Nwo

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• Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Air, Average

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• Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

  Isaac Asimov

  Democracy, Politics

  Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Issues, Air, Water

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• You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

  Molly Ivins

  Water, Would Be, Needs

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• We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Animal, Cynical, Population

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• Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

  Prince Philip

  Cannibalism, Problem, Realistic

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• We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

  Ted Turner

  Children, People, Energy

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• We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

  Gunter Grass

  Future, Growth, Environmental Pollution

  "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

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• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

  Warren Christopher

  Environmental, Collaboration, Borders

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• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Issues, Growth

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