“Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.” ImportantHelpingEarthPoliticalGirlGrowthRightsEconomicGainsResourcesPopulationFactorsPlusGorePopulation GrowthEconomic PowerWorld PopulationReproductive RightsPoint BreakSafeguarding Author:Al Gore
“The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on an unsustainable course.” MadeStillsCoursesGrowthTechnologyEconomicGainsManagementImpactEnvironmentalPopulationSustainabilityEconomic GrowthEnvironmental Impact Author:Klaus Topfer
“Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.” PeopleKindChildrenTurnsLevelsPovertyComfortableGainsPopulationIncomeReactionsChainsJapanFewerChain Reactions Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.” WorldTryingYearsLaughingRightsGainsYears AgoPopulationDestroyedSensibilityNaiveIndigenousPredecessors Author:Noam Chomsky
“I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.” TryingBelieveI BelieveUnderstandingPsychologyModernCivilizationGainsPopulationIntellectIntuitiveIndigenousModern Civilization Author:Serj Tankian
“UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.” ShouldBelieveCountryShowsFallOpportunityLeftI BelieveGrowthPoorPracticeStudyBirthGainsImpactRatePopulationCurrentsPlanningIncomeDevelopingEmpoweringFortyEarningTacticsIntimidationDeveloping CountriesPopulation GrowthFamily PlanningBirth Rate Author:Muhammad Yunus
“Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.” IfsLifeDoeIndividualEvolutionIntegrityGainsCapacityCloudsMetaphorPopulationProtectionScalesLocalsPassingPassingsDesertBordersSufficientAppropriateUnitsSelectionTransientPanoramaGeological TimeSpeciation Book:Punctuated Equilibrium Source: Punctuated Equilibrium