Over Population Quotes

“Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we ever decide to stop using it - that may be the number to which our own naturally gravitates.”
― Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

“With excess population you can't stabilise the economy of society, can't save the environment for society and can't subdue the evil in society.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. -William Blake

This admirable couplet should be posted in conspicuous places all over England. The truth it embodies is threatened by two parties of opinion: on the one hand by those who hold it as a sin against nature to try and control the increase of population in any way and on the other by those who believe in 'growth', the pursuit at all costs of a standard of living which entails more and more industrialization and urbanization. If the believers in nature have their way, England will in the end be so full of people that they will be jostling each other even on mountains: if the believers in 'growth' have their way, the whole country will be covered with streets and we shall hardly be aware that mountains exist.”
― David Cecil, Library Looking-Glass : A Personal Anthology

“If your work is worthy enough to carry your name, you may not need a child to carry your name.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“When the Earth was flat we had a fear of falling off the edge. Now the Earth is round we've lost that fear, and all hope of staying on.”
― Chris James - The O.D.

“Islamists also pushed back on Ayub’s efforts at controlling what he saw as the ‘menace of over-population’ through a comprehensive family planning programme. ‘I cannot believe that any religion can object to population control’, Ayub declared, adding that ‘no good religion can object to anything aimed at the betterment of human lot, because all religions, after all, come for the good of the human race and human beings do not come into the world for the religions.’75 But once Ayub’s hold over power was weakened, mullahs railed against family planning and birth control as conspiracies of unbelievers aimed at keeping down the number of Muslims.”
― Husain Haqqani, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State

“The actual issue is not the excess of population but the actions of population.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Parents with one child or two child or more child all are contributor to population explosion.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It is time to award and reward those responsible partners who decide not to be reproducing parents.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A huge population doesn't break the differences among them, they break the laws made for them.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Capitalist and economist in their souls don't see newborns as kids but as consumers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“By not imposing laws to control the population, we are issuing the nature a license to kill the population.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We have put the extinction clock on a fast-forward.”
― Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization