“If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator.” IfsWellsMayWholeWinningSuccessfulConditionsDevelopmentDiseasePreparedIllPopulationFactorsRangeVariationPredatorMatching Author:Erik Naggum
“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.” IfsFirstsChildrenTwoCharacterYoungStrongWishResponsibilityMoralGenerationsDevelopmentModelsPercentRaisesPopulationGood CharacterCharacter DevelopmentMoral CharacterRaise Up Book:Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues
“I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.” ShouldHas BeensDifferentPoorCenturyDevelopmentLowsPercentPopulationIncomeAlternativesLoserMexico20th Century Author:Vicente Fox
“Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations seems to have no name; but as it has probably reached its highest development in the biological study known as 'ecology,' this name may well be given to it.” WellsMayRealitySeemsNamesGivenKnownStudyDevelopmentHighestAspectPopulationEcologyEquilibriumDynamics Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls "white bourgeois freedom."” PeopleBlackWhiteDevelopmentCitizensIntellectualTraditionPopulationPrisonerBlack PeopleDylanIndigenousEmergingCritiqueBourgeoisRobustMigrantsIndigenous People Author:Dean Spade
“The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.” IfsHumansDevelopmentPopulationAidsWelcomeRadicalInevitableReductionEpidemicsEnvironmentalistScourgeHuman PopulationAids Epidemic Author:David Foreman
“Because of rampant inflation, living standards have been dropping for the great majority of the population. The people are poorer because standards of health and education have fallen. And conditions in the rural areas are worse off than they have ever been. So, you cannot equate the so-called open-market economy adopted by the SLORC with any real development that benefits people.” PeopleHas BeensRealEconomyConditionsDevelopmentBenefitsStandardsAreasMajorityPopulationFallenAdoptedInflationDroppingMarket EconomyRural AreasHealth And Education Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.” WorldCitiesGrowingBuildingDevelopmentPercentIndiaIncreasePopulationChinaAround The WorldOverwhelmingCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Frank Gehry
“Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.” WorldHumansHas BeensStatesReasonHalfPovertyViolenceDevelopmentPopulationInequalityPrimariesRegionsHuman DevelopmentUnrestWorld PopulationHuman PopulationWorld Life Author:Abdul Kalam
“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.” HumansSelfProblemGivenPowerfulTechnologyPossibilitySeriousDevelopmentPopulationExtinctionDensityHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson