Quotes About Overpopulation

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

European colonists cleared or damaged bush because they did not value it and introduced to more than sixty-five per cent of the continent mono-cultures of non-Australian species they did value... it is our southern Eurasian ancestors... who are actually nomads because we overpopulate... damage land in the process, then wage wars on neighbours to take their land in order to continue to over-populate, and on it goes.

As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity.

The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

He wasn't sure which he hated most, the oppressive government of this world or the mindless, ever-breeding swarm it governed.

There are fewer and fewer jobs among us, more of us being born, more kids growing up with nothing to look forward to. One way or another, we'll all be poor some day. The adults say things will get better, but they never have.

It is obvious,' wrote Vogt, 'that fifty years hence the world cannot support three billion people at any but coolie standards