World Population Quotes - Page 3

• In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Order, Eugenics, Wiping Out

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• As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Issues, Leader

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• 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.

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• Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he is going to steal. When somebody is dying, what does he care if he kills somebody else and gets money to survive? - because lust for life is the basis of all biological growth. A man can do anything to survive.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Men, People

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• Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Character, Science, Upset

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• The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

  Maurice Strong

  Growth, Population, Needs

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Smart, Class, Differences

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• If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

  B. F. Skinner

  Numbers, Balance, Population

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

  Bill Gates

  Empowering, Growth, Population

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• Right now over 70 percent of the world population is convinced that something serious has to be done about the dangers facing the planet. ...Most of humanity wants to know how to make the change. It's one of those tipping-point times where things can change unbelievably fast.

  Paul Ray

  Inspirational, Humanity, Done

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• We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  Art Hoppe

  Naughty, Worry, Population

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• Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

  Maurice Strong

  Population, World

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• It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  People, Energy, Population

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• Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

  Carlo Ratti

  Cities, Population, World

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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