Occupation: Population Biologist Birth: May 29, 1932
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches..
We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that….
The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, a….
Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people..
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer..
In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the ste….
We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing..
There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet.….
Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is t….
We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment….
There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our r….
People have not made the connection that the more of us there are, the more greenhouse gases go into the atmosphere. The Chinese have. They, unlike u….
For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornograph….
Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little wat….
We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's th….
There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for th….
Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being a….
I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to have everybody li….
By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people..
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.
Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequalit….