 | Men
and women aren't going to be motivated to practice any form of birth control until
they know that most of the children they do bear will survive! As it is now, the
only way poor people can provide for their old age is to have several children
who will care for them . . . and the only way they can be sure of having enough
living offspring is to have many, many births. People must be sure that they can
meet their own basic security needs, and that the children they bear will have
a reasonable chance to survive, before birth control can be considered a realistic
option. Only then, when people have freedom from famine, can conscientious efforts
to teach and encourage family planning be successful.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe |
"What becomes of the
surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the
Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations
whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and
endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus
of food is attainable."
-- James
Madison, 1791, U.S. President |  |
Population,
when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
-- Thomas Robert Malthus
"We
must stabilize population. This will be possible only if all nations recognize
that it requires improved social and economic conditions, and the adoption of
effective, voluntary family planning."
--Lester Milbrath
"When
the family is small, whatever little they have they are able to share. There is
peace."
--Philip Njuguna, pastor, Nairobi, Kenya
Either
a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine,
war, will take care of the issue."
-- Chuck Palahniuk
|
When
motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not
the result of ignorance or accident, its children
will become the foundation of a new race.
-- Margaret
Sanger
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"If
the world is to save any part of its resources for the future,
it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers."
-- B.F. Skinner
We
have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals,
but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
-- Arnold
Joseph Toynbee
"It
is not prudent to rely on science and technology alone to solve problems created
by rapid population growth, wasteful resource consumption and harmful human practices."
--U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London, joint statement
"The
key probem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality
of life -- for 8 billion or more people -- without wrecking the environment entirely
in the attempt."
-- Edward O. Wilson, scientist, Pulitzer prize winning author
and father of biodiversity
"Pressures
resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world
that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt
the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth."
--World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, signed by 1600 senior scientists from
70 countries, including 102 Nobel Prize laureates
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