Kevin Rudd Quotes

This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

Development has to rise if population is going to increase, Otherwise people will starve and all kinds of other problems.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

One of the most serious challenges to human destiny in the last third of this century will be the growth of population …. When future generations evaluate the record of. our time, one of the most important factors in their judgment will be the way in which we respond to population growth

Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.

If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

One great building does not make a great city.

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

Urbanization is the dominant demographic trend of our time.

In 2007, the majority of the world’s population – over 3 billion of us – will live in urban areas for the first time in history.