Population Growth Rate Quotes

When it comes to the population explosion, there are two questions on the table. One, is our population growth going to kill us all? And two, is there any ethical way to prevent that from happening?

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

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.

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

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

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.

Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.

If allowed to continue, the population will increase by 12 million—two more Scotlands—in 20 years. That’s huge.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.