It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the difficult reality of overpopulation and the drastic measures needed to address it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau's quote highlights the grim necessity of stabilizing world population, suggesting that it has reached unsustainable levels. He presents the unsettling proposal of reducing the population significantly, underscoring the complexity and severity of global challenges related to overpopulation, while acknowledging the moral weight of such a discussion, reflecting on the broader existential concerns for humanity and the planet.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about global sustainability challenges.
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
The sea is not a bargain basement.
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.
No future without forgiveness.
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