Quotes

"We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population." - Harrison Ford

"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

"Our population and 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

"It's coming home to roost over the next 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

"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the Earth to produce subsistence for man." - Thomas Malthus

"The point of population stabilization is to reduce or minimize misery." - Roger Bengston

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

"If we don't halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity - and will leave a ravaged world." - Dr. Henry W. Kendall

"The key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt." - Edward O. Wilson

"It is not prudent to rely on science and technology alone to solve problems created by rapid population growth, wasteful resource consumption and harmful human practices." - U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London

"We must stabilize population. This will be possible only if all nations recognize that it requires improved social and economic conditions, and the adoption of effective, voluntary family planning." - Lester Milbrath

"Which is the greater danger - nuclear warfare or the population explosion? The latter absolutely! To bring about nuclear war, someone has to do something; someone has to press a button. 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 to do nothing except what comes naturally - and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing." - Dr. Isaac Asimov