David R. Brower Quotes

Population growth is a global problem affecting all of us.

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

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.

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

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

Thicken Population.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

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

It has been acknowledged for many years the current level of human population growth is unsustainable and places acute pressure on global resources. Human activity is exacerbating global warming, and higher population levels inevitably mean higher emissions and more climate change victims.

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.

In most slums and cities in developing states, population growth is outpacing the ability of the growth in pollution and sewage. Such unmet expectations in over-crowded cities can be the catalyst for civil conflict.

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.

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

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

There's too many people in the world.

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

We have to stabilize the population of this planet.

One problem in Africa has been a small population. And the natural resources were large. So you could be as foolish as possible. But you didn’t die. You just remained there eating mangoes and bananas. Now the population in Africa is growing. So the idea that you can go on with idiotic policies is not sustainable. Because a big population needs answers.

The best "gift" anyone can give to humankind is to remain birth-free. It is a SIN for any person to birth while earth births exceed deaths. For what purpose would the world need more than 50,000 new Homo sapiens every year?

All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class, and if morality is to mean anything at all to us, we must regard all the changes which tend toward the uplift and survival of the human race as moral.

Rapid Global population growth is an urgent and substantial threat to international stability and sustainable development. This Presidential Decision Directive articulates objectives for and guides the implementation of United States policy on population growth.

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

The only real growth industry in the Middle East has been population.

So far, the United States knows nothing of the difficulties of over-population; and historic realities of a nature to hamper the free play of economic forces exist only in a very limited degree. Quite the reverse is true in Europe.

Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'