World Population Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• World population needs to be decreased by 50%

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ebola, World, Population

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• It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Population, World, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  Hans Rosling

  Children, Average, Population

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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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• 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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• The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.

  Thomas Pogge

  Military, Two, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  War, Humanity, World

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Years

  "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.

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• If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eugenics, Black, Population

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Facts, Affluence

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• The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.

  Prince Philip

  Years, Population, Done

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

  Stephen Hawking

  Population, Use, Growing

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

  David Harvey

  People, Population, Income

  David Harvey (2013). “Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom”, p.58, Columbia University Press

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• It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

  Robin Benway

  Life, Mean, Bed

  Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.58, Penguin

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• As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.

  Paul Saffo

  Gun, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Two, Growth, Population

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• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Long, Population

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• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

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• Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.

  Adolf Hitler

  Numbers, Population, Territory

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• I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.

  Muriel Barbery

  Numbers, Population, World

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• Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

  David Suzuki

  Understanding, Innovation, Growth

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.70, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Doctors, Years

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

  Abdul Kalam

  Development, Unrest, Half

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• Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

  Al Gore

  Girl, Rights, Point Break

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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