"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."

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"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."

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"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."

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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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"We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world."

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"The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear."

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