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Quotes About Overpopulation

If births continued and deaths were severely curtailed, overpopulation would soon cause devastating effects.
~ Douglas E. Richards
And when one kind of animal overruns an area to the point where many kinds of animal begin to starve, it's up to the predators to thin out the herds before there's nothing left for anyone. That's a simple truth whether you're talking about deer or humans.
~ Anne Bishop
You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!
~ Lydia Millet
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
~ Edward Abbey
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
~ Alexandra Paul
Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
~ Edward Abbey
Earth is 98 percent full. Please delete anyone you can.
~ Anonymous
Humans are best understood as exterminators, he says. Every habitat we enter, we decimate, and now we have overrun the earth. The next thing we exterminate will be ourselves.
~ Anthony Doerr
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
~ Yvonne Strahovski
Whisperer' and a bestselling author of climate change and overpopulation books. Combining his curriculum vitae with the amazing dumbing down of the humanities department in recent years, he was in high demand. The campus was full of attractive women with limited, or even non-existent, critical thinking skills who didn't know very much but were passionate about their beliefs.
~ Rod Pennington
Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death -- unless he sucks eggs.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
~ Scott Westerfeld
humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.
~ Scott Westerfeld
humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
~ Scott Westerfeld
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
~ John Cage
Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.
~ Garrett Hardin
The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.
~ David Brin
Perhaps, in a world too full of people, she was the one too many.
~ Elizabeth Knox
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
~ Nina Fedoroff
Spay or neuter your dog or cat so our shelters don't fill at inexorable rates.
~ Suzy Shuster
I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.
~ Will Estes
I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
There are too many f***ing people on the planet. Everybody's got to stop having 40 kids. We need free access to birth control and health care for women.
~ Sandra Bernhard