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Population control

Paul Watson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:59:54 +0000

“We need to radically and intelligently reduce human population to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.”

Population, Animals

Jeremy Rifkin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:40:53 +0000

“It seems disingenous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second and third world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.”

Population control

Paul Ehrlich — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:49:20 +0000

“We need compulsory birth regulation.. (through) the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired family size.”

Man’s actions = fish extinction

Al Gore — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:13:21 +0000

â€œIf we continue at the present rate, virtually all the species of fish in the ocean will be extinct in the next 50 years.â€

Millions will starve in the 1970’s

Paul Ehrlich — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:52:37 +0000

â€œIn the 1970s, the world will undergo famines â€“ hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.â€

We must limit the population.

Paul Ehrlich — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:50:10 +0000

“We must have population control at home, hopefully through a system of incentives and penalties, but by compulsion if voluntary methods fail.”

Cannibalism can solve the population “problem”.

Prince Philip — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:59:38 +0000

“Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”

Eradicate 98 percent of humankind.

David Foreman — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:59:42 +0000

â€œ[M]y three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness with its full complement of species returning throughout the world.â€

Reduce the world’s population by 93%.

Ted Turner — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:58:27 +0000

“Right now, there are just way too many people on the planet. We need to cut the world’s population from the current five billion to no more than 250 million to 350 million.”

Five percent of the present population would be ideal.

Ted Turner — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:53:08 +0000

“A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95 percent decline from present levels, would be ideal.”