Barbara Demick Quotes

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

Demography is destiny.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

Our primary objective is to reduce British over-population. But many leaders of foreign nations approach us to help them get a handle on their burgeoning population.

Our faithful Catholic mothers are doing wonderful work for God. In time, if methods of birth control continue to prevail among the non-Catholics, their race will die out and the Catholic race will prevail and thus England will become again what it once was, a Catholic country.

The changes taking place in the age structure of the countries around the world are stunning.

For if we can remove the turbulent Gallics [French], our people according to exactest computations, will in another century, become even more numerous than England itself.

If allowed to continue, the population will increase by 12 million—two more Scotlands—in 20 years. That’s huge.

The Millennial Generation - the biggest American generation in history - is reversing the migration into rural areas and moving back to city centers.

I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.