Isaac Asimov Quotes About Overpopulation

Quotes about: Overpopulation

• 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.

• 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

• Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

  Isaac Asimov

  Democracy, Politics, Overpopulation

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

• To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

  Isaac Asimov

  Population, Needs, Anarchy

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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