“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.” IfsHumansLongWarGrowthTermSeriousDiseaseMajorsSurvivalIncreaseThreatPopulationDisasterLong TermControlledStarvationPopulation GrowthHuman Population Author:Prince Philip
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.” WorldWayWarFoundNationsCausesChanceMy OwnStruggleEnvironmentBattleSurvivalHundredPressureMereForgottenPopulationSavedResistanceDamnParksWildernessHopelessOverwhelmingSanityConservationCan NotPreservationCrowdedNuclear WarGood Causes Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.” NeedsHumansMatterMotherRightsWeekBirthSurvivalIncreaseRateHuman RightsPopulationAbortionOppositionMortalitySensibilityUrgencyDecreaseBirth ControlPrecedenceMorbidity Author:Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
“I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.” StatesLawHateWinningAttentionMistakeSupportFocusConditionsCrimeProtectSurvivalResourcesVictimCastsPopulationArguingDiscriminationReliefActivistInclusionFrameworkTransHate CrimeAnti Discrimination Author:Dean Spade
“I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.” TryingHumansMadeWholeWantedFieldsSurvivalSpeciesBottomPopulationHuman SpeciesBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Ted Turner
“Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.” SuccessfulEnvironmentProduceBenefitsSurvivalPopulationControlledMammals Author:David Attenborough
“There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn't stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we've got to stop war.” IfsWantNeedsHumansWarEnoughEarthViolenceProductsSurvivalResourcesStressSpeciesIncludingPopulationExploitationDistributionAdequateHoardingExtractionStop War Author:Vern Huffman
“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.” IfsNeedsYearsDesireLibertyStruggleConditionsExerciseSurvivalHundredPopulationObstaclesSatisfiedVulnerableManipulationFulfilledExhaustedConsumingAbsorbingTime ConsumingStruggle For SurvivalRegimentation Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.” PeopleWorldHumansMeanBeautifulFormOrderKnownLibertyAliveEconomicConditionsMankindDesignParticularActivityEssentialsSurvivalCapitalismEconomicsRegardAimPopulationProductionsPleasantCapitalistOwnershipOrganizeIndispensablePreservationPreferenceFree MarketDeliberateHuman Activity Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment” ShouldEnvironmentBenefitsSurvivalPopulationOur EnvironmentSustainable DevelopmentPopulation ControlWorld PopulationHuman Population Author:David Attenborough
“Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.” WayYearsStatesFactsAsksBehindsStruggleDemandSurvivalYears AgoArmyPopulationIsraelWideNeighborMilesSecureRangePresidentialBordersHeroicFoundingHostileArtilleryStruggle For Survival Author:Ronald Reagan
“Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.” IfsThinkingLifeHumansEarthNextImaginationCompassionDramaProjectsSurvivalResourcesGardenPopulationSexualityDisappearTreatedBreathingSoilCarrieEntityNext TimeStewardsHuman PopulationLifelines Author:Marjorie Harris
“Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.” MeanResultsConflictSurvivalPopulationEndlessImmigrationOrganizedIntegratingReplacements Author:Marine Le Pen
“The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered Moth in a clean environment and in one polluted by smoke. The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection--or survival of the fittest--in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the population may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston Betularia.” MayEndsShowsLightActionFormNaturalDarkEnvironmentProgressEffectsEvolutionNormalSurvivalCleanPopulationExperimentsSmokeSelectionNatural SelectionMothsSurvival Of The Fittest Author:L. Harrison Matthews
“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.” YearsLongStillsEnoughUseEarthPastNextDifficultTermChanceAbilitySpaceMillionsEnvironmentGrowingPlanetsThousandSurvivalHundredResourcesAdvantageInstinctIllPopulationSpreadSelfishDisasterCodeLong TermCarrieAggressiveInwardFinitePlanet EarthAbility To Change Author:Stephen Hawking
“Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.” ConditionsFitSurvivalPopulationConnectedPhenomenonMechanismElimination Author:William Ralph Inge
“I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.” WorldShowsFallLeftDifficultSkyTvsWalkingSurvivalPopulationEmsFascinatedTv ShowsDifficult TimesWalking Dead Author:Cam Gigandet
“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