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Quotes About Population

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men
~ Gro Harlem Brundtland
There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.
~ Nelson Mandela
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
~ Amartya Sen
A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
~ John Holdren
If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.
~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not as pronounced as almost anyone else's.
~ Austan Goolsbee
The problem of burgeoning population can be addressed if we begin with women itself. And, we need to educate them and spread awareness about birth control and family planning through TV channels and newspapers.
~ Geeta Phogat
I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out.
~ Jessica Alba
We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.
~ Max Cannon
I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend.
~ Daniel Suarez
We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.
~ Richard Leakey
We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after all are consumers too.
~ Chuka Umunna
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
~ Johan Rockstrom
Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.
~ Emanuel Celler
As hundreds of millions of Chinese have improved their standard of living, this has put enormous pressure on natural resources, raw materials, and food basics, among others.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
~ Li Peng
The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.
~ Paul Polman
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.
~ Aristotle
The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
~ Pliny the Elder
If men were in charge of carrying and birthing our babies, we'd have a lot fewer people on Earth, because we'd only do it once- I can promise you that!
~ Phil Robertson
Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
~ Rita Rudner
The average man. The emergence of the concept.
~ Adolphe Quetelet
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
~ Alfred Doblin