Nina Fedoroff Quotes

We have to stabilize the population of this planet.

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

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?

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

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

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

I've been working a lot with Dick Smith on overpopulation.

People who are not addressing the issues of population control are not seriously addressing the environment.

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?

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.

In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.

It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

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

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