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“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.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.”

“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.”

“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.”

“The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.”

Problem Morality Solutions Fundamentals Population Extensions Population Problem

Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

“It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.”

“I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.”

“It's obvious that the key problem 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.”

People Problem Humanity Quality Environment Century Keys Population Obvious Billions Quality Of Life World Population Human Population Population Problem Better Quality Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”

People World Important Problem Would Be Today Asks Answers Focus Environmental Population World Today Flip Identifying Misguided Population Problem

Book:Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

Source: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition

“She gave me the jabs and said I was covered for every worst-case scenario, including being bitten by a dirty chimp. I told her this is why we have over-population problems. Why are idiots who annoy dirty chimps being protected?”

Said Problem Cases Worst Including Population Idiot Dirty Covered Annoying Protected Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Population Problem

Book:An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today”

Problem Today Faces Environmental Population Overconsumption Population Growth Overpopulation Population Control Environmental Problems World Population Environmental Crisis Population Problem

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?”

“There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.”

Fighting Common Effort Progress Battle Hunger Population Productions Permanent Agency Population Control Food Production Population Problem

Author:Norman Borlaug

“We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.”

“Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.”

Children Problem Social Growth Poverty Labor Population Unemployment Illiteracy Social Problems Population Growth Child Labor Child Labour Population Problem

Author:Kailash Satyarthi