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Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable. -- Bindi Irwin
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. -- Havelock Ellis
I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow. -- Richard Preston
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge. -- Martin Seligman
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically. -- Ralph Merkle
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade. -- John Burnside
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. -- Charles Lyell
The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed. -- Jim Gerlach
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness. -- Mark Shand
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. -- Gore Vidal
Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want. -- Ban Ki-moon
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose. -- David Suzuki
Life on the planet is being homogenized by the expanding human population and the frequent and rapid movement of people and goods, which carry invasive organisms with them. These invasives often flourish in their new ecosystems because, like the woolly adelgid, they have escaped their predators. -- Richard Preston
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble. -- David Quammen
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way. -- Jonathan Ames
Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster. -- Richard Preston
The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits. -- Scott Adams
The optimum human population of earth is zero. -- David Foreman
Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife? -- David Attenborough
We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population. -- Jaggi Vasudev
I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population -- David Attenborough
We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem. -- Sharon Gannon
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence. -- Dalai Lama
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Philip
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. -- James Lovelock
We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and sister; should they let the human race die out? -- Bertrand Russell
With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. -- Angela Davis
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources. -- M. King Hubbert
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It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years. -- Peter Lynch
People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights. -- Peter Ustinov
The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction. -- Dale Jamieson
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population. -- David Foreman
The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it. -- David Foreman
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world. -- David Foreman
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve -- Simon Barnes
Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate. -- Sharon Gannon

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