#population

If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#brutal #control #decades #growth #like

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#destruction #environment #growth #our #population

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bush #cameroon #cut #difficult #expand

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#despondency #even #large #now #ours

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force. ↗

— Otto Schily

#become #been #catastrophes #during #force

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#exchange #future #i #i am #important

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#accused #afford #aggression #arab #because

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#factor #finding #general #hundreds #just

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#countries #demand #growth #high #like