WORLD POPULATION DAY (11th July)
QUOTES
When the family is small, whatever little they have they are able to share. There is peace.
- Philip Njuguna, pastor, Nairobi, Kenya
What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2nd. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.
- James Madison, 1791, U.S. President
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
- B.F. Skinner, psychologist and author (Introduction to Walden Two, 1976 edition)
Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth.
- World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, signed by 1600 senior scientists from 70 countries, including 102 Nobel Prize laureates
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