Dean Kamen Quotes

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

There's too many people in the world.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.... the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

With an estimated population of nine billion people by 2050, we cannot continue to consume resources at the same rate and maintain our quality of life.

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.

We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

You only have to ask yourself, "What would happen if the entire population of India and China had two-car garages and were living at the technological and the economic standard that the American middle class is today?" The planet would become very rapidly uninhabitable.

With shrinking resources, interest groups are pitted against each other.

When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable.

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.