Human Population

This planet might be

This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage. Eric Pianka

Alaska\\’s chief attractions are:

Alaska’s chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze. Edward Abbey

The cutting of primeval

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. E. O. Wilson

It\’s obvious that the

It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. E. O. Wilson

While ants exist in

While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and … Read more

With the world’s human

With the world’s human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can’t control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose. David Suzuki

This planet might be

Alaska\\’s chief attractions are:

The cutting of primeval

It\’s obvious that the

While ants exist in

With the world’s human

An Ice Age is

My three main goals

The AIDS epidemic, rather

The optimum human population