population Quotes

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A great city should not be confused with just a crowded one.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you

It's paradoxical that, when you have better health, families choose to have less children, because they've been having enough children so that they can be sure that a few of them will survive and take care of them. So as... ...