“A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.” YearsFoundCitiesShareFairsYears AgoSevenPopulationVariousKingdomsRepresentativesParliamentFair Share Book:The Public Letters of John Bright Source: The Public Letters of John Bright
“The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.” WorldYearsDoneEnvironmentHugeYears AgoIncreasePopulationHarmBillionsExplosionsWorld Population Author:Prince Philip
“In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.” YearsTodayLandAmountYears AgoPopulationColombiaSmall Amounts Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.” YearsGrowthHugeYears AgoPopulationJewIsraelWorriedFinishing Author:Meir Kahane
“It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.” WorldYearsMatterHalfProgressYears AgoIndiaPopulationChinaBetter Now Author:Freeman Dyson
“There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to decline with increasing industrialization and education. The US, however, is off the chart, ranking near devastated peasant societies. About 1/2 the population believe the world was created a few thousand years ago: the justification for the belief is that that is what they were ordered to believe by authority figures to whom they were taught one must subordinate oneself. And on, and on.” WorldYearsBelieveBeliefReligiousStudyFiguresTaughtThousandAuthorityYears AgoOneselfPopulationFactorsDeclineJustificationThousand YearsPeasantsFanaticismSubordinatesDevastatedRankingIndustrializationAuthority Figures Author:Noam Chomsky
“Half of the [USA] population, roughly, thinks the world was created a couple thousand years ago. Two thirds of the country is expecting the second coming of Christ. They've also had to turn to nativists. The gun culture in the United States, which is out of control, is party fueled by people who think 'we've got to have our guns to protect ourselves.'” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsTwoCountryStatesTurnsCultureChristUnitedPartyHalfUnited StatesCoupleThousandProtectGunYears AgoThirdsPopulationUsaExpectingThousand YearsGun Culture Author:Noam Chomsky
“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