Population Explosion Quotes

• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Israel, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

  Radhanath Swami

  Real, Population, Problem

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

  Thomas Malthus

  Years, Environmental, Population

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• Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Issues, Population

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• We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Support, Growth

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• We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  Art Hoppe

  Naughty, Worry, Population

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• We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, West, Population

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.

  Pentti Linkola

  Believe, Humanity, Western Culture

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.133, Arktos

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• Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

  Norman Borlaug

  Taken, Leader, Population

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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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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• As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

  Laura Huxley

  Long, Population, Politician

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

  Alfred W. Crosby

  Population, Crash, Climate Change

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• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Ignorance, Numbers, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our reproduction, and in many areas we have started to do so, or we'll end up with a high death rate. You have to take a personal moral stand on this.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Two, Choices, Population

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

  Robert Muller

  Country, Mean, Rich Countries

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• In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Population, World

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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• The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.

  Vandana Shiva

  Land, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction of plant and animal species. We are going to have to want different things, seek different pleasures, pursue different goals than those that have been driving us and our global economy.

  Joanna Macy

  Animal, Goal, Magic

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• How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning.

  Pentti Linkola

  Children, Independent, Men

  "The Doctrine Of Survival And Doctor Ethics", Personal website, www.penttilinkola.com. June 29, 2006.

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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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• I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

  Daniel Quinn

  Technology, Long, Support

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• I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

  Prince Philip

  Animal, Numbers, Nwo

  Foreword to "If I Were an Animal" by Fleur Cowles, 1987.

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• There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

  Evan Esar

  Doors, People, Trying

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