People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
Ian Goldin
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A strong driver of the economy
Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.
Ali Babacan
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A useful model
I won’t compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
Lewis Thomas
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Focus
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.
Nicola Sturgeon
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In a world of billions
It’s sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someone’s day is a smile or kind word, or the generous actions of a complete stranger. Small things, the tiny details, these are the things that matter in life — the little glint in the eye, curve of a lip, nod of a head, wave of a hand — such minuscule movements have huge ripple effects.
Shaun Hick
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It is in the media’s power
As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the media’s power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.
Steven Van Zandt
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It’s about passing on who we are and what we’ve learned
It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we’ve learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.
(Warm Bodies)
Isaac Marion
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It’s pleasurable
It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
Peter Lynch
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Not a major problem
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
Hans Rosling
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People become brain
People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
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Some people complain
Some people complain there are too many people on earth,
Some people complain about secret societies,
Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early.
Almost all people complain about something.
Dejan Stojanovic
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The critical difference
Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.
Lisa Gansky
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The next stage in conscious evolution
Increasing segments of population are entering the next stage in conscious evolution: the arising of consciousness from basic though and action into responsible co-creation.
Joseph Rain
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The old axiom
You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You’ve heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.
Rush Limbaugh
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The primary duty
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.
Pope Benedict XVI
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The spirit of the population
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
Vaclav Havel
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Very dangerous
Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.
(Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
Suzy Kassem
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We all worry
We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.
Art Hoppe
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We must broaden and deepen our knowledge
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature’s laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
Herbert A. Simon
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We’re all interconnected
We’re all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.