Quotes About Population

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

By 1870, San Francisco, with a population of 149,473, was the tenth largest city in the United States, a remarkable development for a city that did not formally exist in 1846.

Had the mission system proved successful—and by the 1830s it had had more than sixty years to do so—a steady stream of Hispanicized Native Americans should long since have been transferring into the civil population of California. This never happened. Either the Indians died off, or they became permanently missionized (which is to say, wards of the Franciscans), or they fled into the interior. Mission culture remained volatile

Most Americans are unaware that the average income of the bottom 50 percent of their population has declined over a thirty-year period.

lo que hace que más de mil millones de personas crucen una frontera cada año—

La Prima Legge Fondamentale della stupidità umana asserisce senza ambiguità di sorta che: Sempre ed inevitabilmente ognuno di noi sottovaluta il numero di individui stupidi in circolazione.

Pur non potendo fornire cifre precise al riguardo, possiamo affermare che nel 1347 c'erano in Europa occidentale molti più ratti e più pulci di quanto comunemente si crede.

Within a democratic system, general elections are a most effective instrument to insure the steady maintenance of fraction ? among the powerful. One has to keep in mind that according to the Second Basic Law, the fraction ? of the voting population are stupid people and elections offer to all of them at once a magnificent opportunity to harm everybody else without gaining anything from their action. They do so by contributing to the maintenance of the ? level among those in power.

the female to male ratio among the newly born is a constant, with a very slight prevalence of males.

According to Human Rights Watch, "the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeds the proportion among state residents in every single state.

to create the full-blown security apparatus to suppress what will eventually be the bulk of a nation's population and to find a continuous substantial flow of foreign capital to offset the inordinate expense—means that it is destined to fail.

In fact, "in twenty states, the percent[age] of blacks incarcerated is at least five times greater than their share of resident population."163

From Pastor Malthus to the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth; from hysteria over DDT, PCBs, and natural gas "fracking"; to continuing bouts of chemo-phobia and population panic; the achievements of capitalism have suffered a long series of detractions. The factitious and febrile campaign against global warming is only the latest binge of self-abuse among the children of prosperity.

Already, boar are being killed here by the Forestry Commission and other owners at rates that could wipe them out. Among the commission's justifications is that they cause 'substantial damage' to woodlands.17 What does this mean? The notion of damage to native ecosystems by a native species at numbers well below its natural population is nonsensical. What the Forestry Commission calls damage a biologist calls natural processes.

for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

En cuanto al ser humano, no debe esperarse que escape, en su larga trayectoria, a la suerte de los animales inferiores. Si hay una ley biológica de flujo y reflujo, su situación es ahora muy peligrosa. Durante diez mil años su número ha aumentado constantemente a pesar de las guerras, las pestes y las hambres. Biológicamente, la prosperidad del ser humano es demasiado larga.

Well," he explained to Em, "you start then with, say, a million rats, half of them being does or bitches or whatever you call lady rats.

his army to plunder, and sold the entire population for slaves.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

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

We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.