“Tenemos dos alternativas: por un lado, el hambre, la peste y la guerra; por otro, la regulación de los nacimientos.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited
“Exponential increases in population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized. While some industrial nations have approached zero population growth, this is not the case for the world as a whole.”
Source: Broca's Brain Reflections on the Romance of Science
“No Green Revolution, no hydroponics, no making the deserts bloom can beat an exponential population growth.”
Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“...the Earth in general can only support so much animal life, and for every aditional pound of human beings and his animal favorites, a pound of other animal life must disappear.”
Source: Beginnings: The Story of Origins
“To prevent economic breakdown and to repress popular discontent, the governments of hungry countries will be tempted to enforce ever-stricter controls. Furthermore, chronic undernourishment reduces physical energy and disturbs the mind. Hunger and self-government are incompatible.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“La constante fuerza de crecimiento de la población, que, como hemos visto, actúa incluso en las sociedades más viciosas, hace que el número de habitantes aumente más de prisa que los medios de subsistencia.”
Source: Primer ensayo sobre la población
“So much of the rest is aftermath.”
Source: Borne
“...entre las ratas la procreación se detiene automáticamente cuando se alcanza un cierto grado de superpoblación, mientras que el hombre no ha encontrado todavía un sistema eficaz para impedir lo que se llama explosiones demográficas.”
Source: Antropologia de la muerte
“For billions of years, evolution has been driven by competition caused by the simple fact that, left unchecked, all living things can reproduce faster than their environment can sustain”
Source: Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
“We are, as a species, in the process of proving Malthus’s proposition that population will always outstrip resources.”
Source: Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World