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Each person we add now disproportionately impacts on the environment and life-support
systems of the planet."
-- Paul
Ehrlich |
Basically,
then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is
a "birth rate solution," in which we find ways to lower the birth rate. The other
is a "death rate solution," in which ways to raise the death rate - war, famine,
pestilence - find us.
-- Paul
Ehrlich The Population Bomb
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.
-- Prof Stephen Hawking
The
hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the
growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must
make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Once it was necessary
that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But
now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation."
-- Helen Keller
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| "Unlike
plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern
plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources
we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal
consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who
are its victim."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr |
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