A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible.
Quoting: United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
Quoting: Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.
Quoting: Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say in order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.
Quoting: Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier
If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
Quoting: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
Quoting: John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.
Quoting: Christopher Manes, Earth First!
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
Quoting: David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.
Quoting: Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution
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