Dave Foreman > Quotes

“Humanity is the cancer of nature.”
― Dave Foreman

“Let’s face it, our representative democracy has broken down. Our government primarily represents the big money boys and stacks the deck against reform movements. Playing only by the system’s rules limits you.”
― Dave Foreman, Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman

“Say that the percentage rate of growth slows from 2.1 percent to 1.7 percent a year over a few years while the absolute increase of yearly growth goes from sixty-four million to seventy-nine million to ninety-three million in that time. How can this be? Because there are more women giving birth at the lower rate.”
― Dave Foreman, Man Swarm: How Overpopulation is Killing the Wild World