Norman Borlaug Quotes

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Population growth is a global problem affecting all of us.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

There's too many people in the world.

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

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

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

… the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences—it’s just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

The imperatives of the population explosion, … almost inevitably will lessen our belief in the sanctity of the individual human life

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

Done because we are too many.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

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.

Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

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.

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.