"I consider the dramatic growth in the world's population to be the greatest challenge currently facing the environment... The effects of this rapid increase are felt around the globe. Starvation, deforestation and lack of clean water are just some of the problems..."

Al Gore

Former Vice President, USA

Environmental activist

"The latest phase of technical-scientific progress, with its fantastic increases in population, has created a situation fraught with problems of hitherto unknown dimensions..."

Albert Einstein

Nobel Prize Winner

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

Kenneth Boulding,

Economist, Educator,

Philosopher

"Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population."

Peter Farb,

Anthropologist, Ecologist, Naturalist

"Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage."

Jacques Cousteau

Explorer, Ecologist, Scientist

"Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanene features of human life"

Bertrand Russell

(English Logician and Philosopher)

1872-1970

"Population growth prevents the development that would slow population growth.

Nathan Keyfitz

Mathematical Demographer

"The human race's prospects of survival were far better when we were defenseless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenseless against ourselves."

Arnold Toynbee

Historian

"I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine."

Margaret Sanger

Founder, International Planned Parenthood

"Family planning... is possible, practical and necessary. Unlike plagues of the Dark Ages or contemporary diseases we do not yet understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is solvable by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victims."

Martin Luther King

Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader

"...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants."

Vaclav Smil

Professor, Demographer, Environmentalist

"If the people will lead, the leaders will follow"

Dr. David Suzuki,

Environmental Activist

"Democracy cannot survive overpopulation."

Isaac Asimov,

Science Fiction Writer,

Biochemist

"Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. Both have to be addressed."

David Brower,

former Executive Director,

Sierra Club

"The accusation that a stand to reduce immigration is racist is music to the ears to those who profit from the cheap labor of immigrants. They are the same people who love to see environmentalists make fools of themselves. And there is no environmentalist more foolish than one who refuses to confront the fact that uncontrolled human population growth is the No. 1 cause of the world's increasing environmental problems."

Captain Paul Watson

Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

"A suitable total for the number of citizens cannot be fixed without considering the land..."

Plato, Laws, V

"Human population growth is the most pressing environmental problem facing the U.S. and the world."

John Flicker,

President, National Audubon Society

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

"In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder."

Prof Stephen Hawking

The Universe in a Nutshell (2001)

"Family planning could bring more benefits to more people at less cost than any other single technology now available to the human race..."

UNICEF Report

1992

" We are dealing with two opposing forces, the scientific power of food production and the biologic power of human reproduction... Man also has acquired the means to reduce the rate of human reproduction, effectively and humanely . . . but has not yet used this potential adequately.  There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until food production and population control unite in a common effort."

Norman Borlaug

father of “Green Revolution”, Nobel Prize Winner