Population Quotes - Page 40

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Majority, Raw Materials, Minorities

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Jobs, Opportunity, Iran

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• Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

  Bob Filner

  Cities, Three, Gang

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• There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Two, California, Texas

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• Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, Littles

  Song: Drift Away

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• The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Technology, People

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• The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.

  Theodor Adorno

  Taken, Heart, Successful

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.59, Verso

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• Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Things In Life, People

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• Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.

  Karl Evang

  Health, Numbers, Giving

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• The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.

  Mildred Blaxter

  People, Healthy, Patterns

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• Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.

  Nikki Haley

  Encouragement, Agency, Special

  "This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. JUly 12, 2012.

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• ...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Brain, Today

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• Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Race, Agriculture, Events

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• Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Views, Special, Different

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• China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial stage of reform. In this context, China still faces many challenges in economic and social development. And a lot still needs to be done in China, in terms of human rights.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, Challenges

  Press Conference with President Obama and President Hu of the People's Republic of China, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 19, 2011.

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• Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Adults, Today, Young

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• Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

  Poul Anderson

  Mean, Men, Space

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• We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.

  Paul Levinson

  War, Space, Age

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• It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Technology, Space

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• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

  Walter Kohn

  Important, Boards, World

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Important, Age

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• There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

  Pat Oliphant

  Art, Strong, Black And White

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, Film, Motivated

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Japan, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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