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Quotes About Overpopulation

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
~ Emile M. Cioran
A test. Other races on other worlds have tried it and failed. Wiped themselves out. Overpopulated to the point of total ecological collapse. Destroyed themselves in wars. We've got to make sure that the human race discovers nanotechnology in the right way and develops it wisely, usefully. Not for power. Not for weapons. Humanely. Then we'll be ready to meet the other races that have succeeded, that have passed this test and become truly intelligent, truly adult.
~ Ben Bova
Population growing, swelling, bursting beyond the capability of the world to sustain so many human beings. Six billion people. Eight. Ten. Most of them starving, diseased, born in miserable poverty and dying in miserable poverty; surviving only long enough to make still more babies, half a million more each day.
~ Ben Bova
There are far too many people born into the world, and far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought." "You sound constipated," said The Midget.
~ Josephine Tey
There are far too many people born into the world, and far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought.
~ Josephine Tey
Por eso yo digo aquí tantas palabrotas, porque están devaluadas, porque ya nada vale nada, hay demasiada gente, todo perdió su efecto , la palabra se ha vaciado de sentido y explota como una pompa de jabón
~ Fernando Vallejo
It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.
~ Michael Pollan
We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed.
~ Sarah Parcak
Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak! ...Boy, am I scary or what?
~ Bill Watterson
The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
~ Julian Huxley
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
~ Henri Bergson
In fact, overpopulation is one reason why some people advocate going to the stars. But a closer examination of the issue shows that the growth of the world population, although still rising, is slowing down. The U.N., for example, has revised its predictions downward several times. Many demographers, in fact, predict that the world population will begin to level off and might even stabilize late in the twenty-first century.
~ Michio Kaku
The heyday of the Norse, which lasted roughly from A.D. 800 to about 1200, was not only a byproduct of such social factors as technology, overpopulation and opportunism. Their great conquests and explorations took place during a period of unusually mild and stable weather in northern Europe called the Medieval Warm Period-some of the warmest four centuries of the previous 8,000 years.
~ Brian M. Fagan
An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
~ Brian W. Aldiss
You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many damn people. You have to somehow get us from 7 billion people to... I don't know what the magic number is, but I imagine at some point, that will happen. And I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm making the cut.
~ Bill Burr
It is written, we musn't forget, in the Prisonhouse of Nations —the United States of America. Here, there are more than 2.3 million men, women, and juveniles under lock and key. As theNewYork Timeshas recently reported, the U.S. has just under 5 percent of the world's population, yet it has a quarter of the world's prison population.1 In the realm of imprisonment, the United States truly is Number one.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
Done because we are too many.
~ Thomas Hardy
If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
~ O. Henry
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
~ Jacques Cousteau
Podstawowy jednak powód tak wysokiej Å›miertelnoÅ›ci to ich liczebno??. ByÅ'o ich po prostu za du?o, ?eby mogli przedstawia? sobÄ… jakÄ…Å› warto?? ekonomicznÄ… w ramach spoÅ'eczeÅ"stwa zdobywców.
~ Sven Lindqvist
To put it bluntly, there are too many humans on this planet. Six-billion-plus primates. And we think too loudly. Our brains are neurocomputers, incredibly complex. The more observers there are, the more quantum weirdness is observed, and the more inconsistencies creep into our reality.
~ Charles Stross
Those who slip into this illusion ignore the signs of impending disaster. The physical degradation of the planet, the cruelty of global capitalism, the looming oil crisis, the collapse of financial markets, and the danger of overpopulation rarely impinge to prick the illusions that warp our consciousness,.
~ Chris Hedges
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.
~ O. Henry
Humans were a lot of things- bad drivers, nosy, dangerous because so many of them were stupid and there were to many of them on the planet.
~ J. R. Ward