Tristram Stuart Quotes

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

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.

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 have to stabilize the population of this planet.

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

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

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.

We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

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.

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

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.

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.

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.

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

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the population.

Thicken Population.

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?

No technical solution can rescue us from the misery of overpopulation. Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

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.

Population growth is a global problem affecting all of us.

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.