“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.” MenWorldHumansMayMeanGovernmentAgeEarthGrowsNaturalSpaceLimitsSurvivalResourcesSafetyPressesPopulationScalesImmortalityDesperateGuaranteesMischiefNatural ResourcesDisarmamentColonizationWorld Government Author:Poul Anderson
“We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.” WellsMayWarProblemAgeUniverseCoursesSpaceEnvironmentResourcesPressureSpeciesPopulationAccessOppressionImmortalityCosmosInfinityRemedyOur EnvironmentBoundlessScarcitySpatialPunctureAdmittance Author:Paul Levinson
“It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.” MayWarUniverseForceSpaceRaceTechnologyFailingDyingBirthNormalTestsPressurePopulationEndlessUnbearableSpace TravelEndless War Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.” WorldImportantPopulationConvincedObjectivesBoardsAttainmentInstitute Book:Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators Source: Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators