The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.
Blankets could be used to stop exponential population growth. If we kept the people warm, maybe they wouldn’t try to heat themselves up through continual fornication.
I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.
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