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Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed. -- David R. Brower
Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet -- Albert Einstein
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse. -- Frosty Wooldridge
My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims. -- Brigitte Bardot
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future. -- Dan Brown
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. -- Gunter Grass
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? -- B. F. Skinner
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. -- Isaac Asimov
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. -- Prince Philip
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox -- David Foreman
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. -- Warren Christopher
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation. -- Prince Philip
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. -- Harri Holkeri
Shouldn't we be against procreation at this point in time? With overpopulation and the strain on the resources on this planet? Shouldn't we reward people who don't spawn? -- Bill Maher
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
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby. -- Mark Steyn
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters. -- Isaac Asimov
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. -- Renata Adler
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet. -- Albert Einstein
I've been working a lot with Dick Smith on overpopulation. -- Bindi Irwin
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
You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved. -- Molly Ivins
There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. -- Adam Hochschild
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
As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.' -- Jeffrey Skoll
When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society. -- Doug Stanhope
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Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. -- Edward Abbey
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque. -- Ann Landers
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom. -- Aldous Huxley

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