David Attenborough Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

  David Attenborough

  Believe, Mad, Growth

• Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Mad, Growth

• I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

  David Attenborough

  Atmosphere, Growth, Balance

• It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

  David Attenborough

  Home, Years, Space

  "Humans are plague on Earth". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

• In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.

  David Attenborough

  Birth Rate, Growth, West

  "Sir David Attenborough interview: The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.

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