Quotes About Population

Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

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.

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.

Don't drink and park, accidents in cars cause population. F**k more the Merrier

The Black Death, or plague, had wreaked havoc in the middle decades of the fourteenth century. Economic depression followed the decline of population, abandonment of fertile land, and curtailing of trade. But by the mid-fifteenth century, economic expansion was once again the order of the day.

The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860

When it came time to populate the one thousand miles of our nation-state, we planted 70 percent of the people at the southern end where only 30 percent of the water was made. This wasn't misplaced people, we told ourselves. This was misplaced rain. In our resolve to move those molecules of water to where the crops and houses grew, California pulled off the ultimate sleight of hand.

Ponder this: From 1983 to 2008, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased sevenfold, from 35 to 240 million. In just three years, from 2008 to 2011, we added another 110 million diabetics to our global population. Shouldn't the main question we ask be why is this happening? instead of what new drug can we find to treat it?

But today there is still a more onerous meaning to "surplus population." They are not only potential sources of cheaper labor, but also, as cast-offs are fodder to become kept humans, profitable for being warehoused, bodies as raw material for profit. This, in fact, is the logic of the private prisons we have already discussed.

To understand prisons as racially structured, consider, first, how the racialized make-up of the prison population is usually described. Writers often deploy a kind of shorthand here, stating the prisons are made up of over 60 percent or more prisoners of color.[80] At one point that figure was as high as 70 percent for "'minorities,"' or 'people of color'.

There is also the problem that, in the wider society "outside," rape in prison has been sensationalized, even fetishized in some quarters. This functions as another way to demonize the prison population, to render it sexually other, a cauldron of "the beastly," the "deviant." Again

In these ways, the racial distribution of groups in the prison population becomes a dramatic stage on which the rest of society works out, in various modes, its calculus of white supremacy. The racism within the prisons provides a platform by which the larger society continually sharpens up its racial calculus.