Quips And Quotes

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Quips

• Have fewer children, and give more to each one. [Karla Lehtonen]
• Going are the fish, open spaces, natural food, a place for the trash, tranquillity, personal freedoms, and the money to throw at all the problems/symptoms. Make the Population Connection! Call xxx.
• A better life depends on stabilizing population.
• Picture your community if solutions could catch up with aspirations. Population Connection. Call/write xxx.
• Treat the disease, not just the symptoms. Make the Population Connection!
• Environmental Decline is a Symptom of Population Growth.
• Your Problems/Pollution is a Symptom of Too Many People.
• Environmental Degradation/Decline/High Taxes is a Symptom of Too Many People.
• What do you want for your family? A stable US population would help. Call us at Population Connection at xxx.
• Where do you want to go today? A stable US population would help the most! Call us at Population Connection at xxx.
• With a stable population, everything would be better in Massachusetts. Please ask us at Population Connection. Call xxx.
• Got a peeve? A stable population would help, and would cost much less money too. Ask Population Connection, call xxx.
• The US grows by 3 million people per year. Stabilizing population is the doable solution for so many of our problems. Call xxx for some true meaningful/visionary/original thinking.
• Any cause/solving any problem without a population program is like mopping the floor with the water still turned on. 3 million more Americans every year. Ask Population Connection at xxx.
• US Population growth times your pet peeve equals no solution. Ask us at Population Connection, call xxx. With your help, we can help.
• Pollution, crime, scarcity, and increasing costs are all symptoms of too many people.
• Pollution, crime, loneliness, and increasing expenses are all symptoms of too many people. Ask us at Population Connection, for the sake of our children. Call xxx.
• Overpopulation begins at home.
• There are too many people.
• Overpopulation kills children.
• If there were fewer of us, you'd be home by now.
• Overpopulation alienates you from you neighbors. It creates strangers that angers you, traffic that gives you hypertension, and fear that makes you prefer to stay in your home.
• Anyone who believes in unlimited growth is either a madman or an economist [Herman Daly].
• Do we control growth, or does growth control us?
• Let's take more care of the children we have, not have more children than we can take care of.
• We can't grow on like this.
• How many people does it take to waste the Earth? 5 billion and counting.
• Family Planning reduces poverty.
• Contraception reduces hunger and homelessness.
• Contraception Constrains Consumption.
• The solution to Overpopulation is Over-confidence.
• Ignorance breeds poverty. Poverty just breeds. Does not sound too good.
• Housing shortage -- or population longage. Landfill shortage..., water, clean air,...

Quotes

• Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. [Albert Einstein]
• The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. [Adlai Stevenson]
• When a conflict of interest arises, it should be resolved for the greatest good of the greatest number of people in the long run. [Giffort Pinchot, first chief of the US Forest Service]
• Don’t be a deep feeler and a poor thinker. -- George C. Marshall, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1953.
• ‘Just say no’ has done as much for drugs and sex as ‘have a nice day’ has done for depression.
• Have fewer children, and give more to each one. [Karla Lehtonen]
• Each species is a part of the puzzle of life; as you eliminate the different pieces, the whole ecosystem slowly but surely falls apart. [Heather Urquhart, New England Aquarium] 2·25·96bg
• Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit at least 8 billion on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe. All the other problems, like overheating the globe for a period, vicious little wars, nuclear terrorism -- these may be forgotten in the centuries ahead, but not the depletion of biodiversity. That’s the one irreversible thing. [EO Wilson] 1,2·96nas
• The environment is man’s first right. [Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria, 4·95] 12·95wwi#127
• Picture your community if solutions could catch up with aspirations. We can’t grow on like this.
• Do we control growth, or does growth control us?
• Let’s take more care of the children we have, not have more children than we can take care of.
• The continuation of continuously rising demand and a shrinking resource base can lead from stability to instability and to collapse almost overnight. [Lester Brown, sow, 1995]
• For women to be economically empowered they need family planning services. [Hannatu Ibrahim, PP, Nigeria]
• If we now ignore the plight of those unborn generations which, because of our unreadiness to take corrective action on controlling population growth, will be denied any expectations beyond abject poverty and suffering, then history will rightly condemn us. [President Dwight D. Eisenhower] 9/1965
• Let us in all our lands -- including this land -- face forthrightly the multiplying problems of our multiplying populations, and seek answers to this most profound challenge to the future of the world. [President Lyndon Johnson, to the 20th anniversary of the UN] 6/25/1965
• Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization. [California Governor Ronald Reagan] 1974
• Without population stabilization, the losses are more numerous and the wins are mostly temporary.
• Any cause without a population program is like mopping the floor with the water still turned on.
• Population times pollution equals no solution. [singer/songwriter Fred Small in Too Many People] 1993
• Our species is the most numerous large animal that has ever existed. We now move more earth than wind, rain or tides and are changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere, raising the earth's temperature and melting the glaciers and polar ice caps. 10/95sc
• War is what kept most Red Sea reefs and beaches pristine all these years. These virgin splendors may now be overwhelmed (by tourists). 1/2/95nw
• The future is not so much to be predicted as to be chosen. [Donella Meadows]
• The problem with environmentalists is they never say what they want, only what they don't want.
• There is no meaningful limit to our capacity to keep growing forever. [econ. Julian Simon, 1981] win94nrdc
• 80 percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years. [J. H. Kunstler] 9/21/93bg
• Human activity since 1950, mostly by industrialized world, has damaged Earth more than in all previous history. 5/31/92bg
• Our economic system depends on depleting the resources & environment on which we depend.
• Energy is the motor of economic growth, but using energy probably causes more environmental harm than any other peaceful human activity. 12/92zpg
• Nature has provided us with processes which can neutralize or disperse most human and industrial wastes. The cost of these processes is free, but the extent is limited. The greater the increase in human population, the more we must supplement these processes. We are now at the point where the cost of doing this is more than our society or economy can bear. 5/93
• In the last 100 years, except for a few sparsely populated oil rich states, no poor high population growth rate country has developed economically without first stabilizing its growth rate. fall95pci
• No country has ever become rich without 100 years of low population growth.
• The more growth, the more capital goes to provide for survival of new citizens rather than improvement of life. [economist Lester Thurow, Sloan School, MIT] 7/91bg