Annalee Newitz Quotes

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

Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

Death is not a disaster. Too many births - that is the real disaster.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

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.

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

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

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

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

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?

We have to stabilize the population of this planet.

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