Malthusian Quotes

“Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.”
― A.E. Samaan

“When people tell me population is the number one environmental problem we face today, I always respond that population is by no means primary. It’s not even secondary or tertiary. First, there’s the question of resource consumption […]. Second is the failure to accept limits, of which overpopulation and overconsumption are merely two linked symptoms.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“Exponential increases in population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized. While some industrial nations have approached zero population growth, this is not the case for the world as a whole.”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain Reflections on the Romance of Science

“No Green Revolution, no hydroponics, no making the deserts bloom can beat an exponential population growth.”
― Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium