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"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
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"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."
"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
"My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail."
"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
"I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location."
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
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"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."
"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."
"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."
"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
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