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  • This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

    Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee
  • In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.

  • The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

  • Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

    Running   War   Cutting  
    Isaac Asimov (1991). “The secret of the universe”, Doubleday Books
  • The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  • For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

    Government   Self   Needs  
    Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.29, Regnery Publishing
  • Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.

    "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,
  • Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

    Interview with Virginia Morell, discovermagazine.com. March 28, 2007.
  • 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  • Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.

    Issues   Air   Water  
  • Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?

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

    Two   Abortion   Mixing  
  • Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

  • I think about the trends at the moment in the planet and how it looks for my grandchildren. I don't panic over it, even though rationally maybe I should. I have faith that these terrible trends will change, and they will not go to their logical conclusions of climate change, militarism, pollution, overpopulation.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

    "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.
  • Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

    Isaac Asimov, Carl Howard Freedman (2005). “Conversations with Isaac Asimov”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  • Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

    Fashion   Aunt   Ideas  
    "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.
  • You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

    Water   Would Be   Needs  
  • Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

    Mean   Night   Men  
  • I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

  • Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today

  • It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

  • When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.

  • The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

    Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”
  • 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.

  • I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

  • Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

    Children   Air   Average  
  • We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

    Doctors   People   Car  
    "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.
  • I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.

    "Go green: have fewer kids, says environmentalist" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2009.
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