Woody Allen Quotes

The number of children in the world is not growing, and so we eventually have a chance to stabilize the population at around 10 billion. We have the technology and wherewithal to feed and provide energy for this many people.

Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

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.

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.

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

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

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

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.

Family planning is the only exit point of the land problem. No other solution is possible.

The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that is, to the area’s carrying capacity. When is an area overpopulated? When its population can’t be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources.... By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

There's a point at which we have to control our borders. The bottom line is the world is full up and the population on the planet is getting bigger and bigger and there ain't much room any more. So, how's it going to work? I don't know.

The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?