Mechai Viravaidya Quotes

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.

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

Population growth makes mitigation of and adaptation to climate change initially harder and ultimately impossible to solve. As long as the UN process ignores this, it will be running up a down escalator, and will ultimately fail

Population growth is a global problem affecting all of us.

We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

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?

To ensure a healthier and more abundant world, we simply must slow the world’s explosive growth in population.

Can you name an environmental problem that would NOT be easier to solve with fewer people, or harder (and ultimately impossible) with more? Nobody can.

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.

There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.

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

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.

It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death –rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for ‘natural’ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

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.

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.

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

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

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

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

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

We have to stabilize the population of this planet.