Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, … - Paul R. Ehrlich

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Paul R. Ehrlich

Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticides, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide - all can be traced easily to too many people.

Car, Dioxide, Easily, People, Water

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By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1. 5 billion people.

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Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.

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To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

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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 stench of dead fish.

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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

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