150 Quotes About Population

  • Author Alan Weisman
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    Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we ever decide to stop using it - that may be the number to which our own naturally gravitates.

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  • Author Mark Hertsgaard
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    … what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries’ consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world’s resource depletion and ecosystem destruction?

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  • Author Ashley Jaylo
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    Our country is not so clean.......because of people f***......so we help to clean our country or in our house......so our country or our house is clean.....

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  • Author David Attenborough
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    All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

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  • Author Isaac Asimov
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    The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

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