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In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground. -- Stewart Udall
With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage. -- Joe Baca
Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population. -- John Olver
One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste. -- Charles Duhigg
Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey. -- Ali Babacan
Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet -- Phil Harding
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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
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. -- Cleveland Abbe
The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities liberally permit housing construction to accommodate new residents. The Los Angeles model, common on the West Coast and in the Northeast Corridor, discourages growth by limiting new housing. -- Virginia Postrel
Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated. -- Linda Sanchez
Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans. -- Ken Mehlman
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. -- Nicola Sturgeon
I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth. -- James Douglas
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals. -- Charles Duhigg
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
It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made. -- Peter Bofinger
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To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. -- David Frum
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. -- Stephen Hawking
Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow. -- Lisa Gansky
It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population. -- Peter Capaldi
When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands. -- Simon Kuznets
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. -- A. N. Wilson
Can a growing human population still leave space for wildlife? -- David Attenborough
The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all. -- Barack Obama
But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left. -- Prince Philip
China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming. -- Frank Gehry

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