Population Quotes - Page 40

• The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto, Gdp

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• In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

  Lester R. Brown

  Sight, People, Water

  "This will be the Arab world's next battle" by Lester R. Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the truth is that the contribution of each individual cannot be reduced to zero... If we believe that the size of the human "footprint" is a serious problem (and there is much evidence for this) then a rational view would be that along with a raft of measures to reduce the footprint per person, the issue of population management must be addressed.

  Chris Rapley

  Zero, Believe, Issues

  "Earth is too crowded for Utopia". news.bbc.co.uk. January 6, 2006.

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• What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

  Phil Harding

  Children, Thinking, Car

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• A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Growth, Usual

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• Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away

  John Beddington

  Technology, Years, People

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• Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

  Phil Harding

  Numbers, Waiting, Growth

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• Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

  Phil Harding

  Growth, Climate, Doe

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• The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Mother, Children, Years

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• Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin

  Phil Harding

  Two Sides, Growth, Coins

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• Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife?

  David Attenborough

  Space, Growing, Wildlife

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• Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented degree. It is bursting at the seams. It's bursting at the seams in human terms, in economic terms, and in ecological terms

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Unique, Our Generation, Challenges

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• It is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth in the context of climate change, travel congestion, unaffordable housing, and resource depletion

  Phil Harding

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

  Al Gore

  Technology, Numbers, Made

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• The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Law, Growth, Firsts

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• The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

  Julius Nyerere

  Children, World, Developing

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• Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

  David Attenborough

  Doubt, Fundamentals, Faces

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• The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most

  David Attenborough

  People, Suffering, Size

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• What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

  Garrett Hardin

  Daily Life, Increase, Features

  Garrett James Hardin (1999). “The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia”, p.2, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century

  Tony Blair

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash

  Heinz Wolff

  Real, People, Growth

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• Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Government, Half

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• All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Age, Revolution

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.7, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Curves, Class, Historical

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