List of people who have expressed views relating to overpopulation as a problem
The people in this list have expressed concerns about human overpopulation.
List
A
- Edward Abbey author and essayist [1]
- Baroness Amos UN Under-Secretary-General [2]
- David Attenborough naturalist [2]
- Ian Angus socialist [2]
- Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General [2]
- Aristotle philosopher [1][2]
- Margaret Atwood novelist [2]
- Isaac Asimov author [1][2][3][4]
B
- Steven Best philosopher and animal rights activist [5]
- Norman Borlaug “father” of Green Revolution [2][3]
- Albert Bartlett physicist [1][2][3][4]
- Max Born physicist [2]
- Kenneth Boulding economist [1][2][3]
- Julia Bradbury presenter [2]
- Richard Branson business leader [2]
- David Brower environmentalist [1][3]
- Dan Brown author [2]
- Michael Buerk journalist [2]
- George H.W. Bush US President [2]
C
- George Carey Archbishop [2]
- Bernard Chidzero economist and politician [2]
- Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State [2]
- Joel E. Cohen demographer
- Confucius philosopher [2]
- Jacques Cousteau conservationist [1][2][3]
D
- Partha Dasgupta economist [2]
- Christian de Duve biologist [2]
- Cameron Diaz actress [2]
E
- Anne H. Ehrlich coauthor with Paul R. Ehrlich
- Paul R. Ehrlich biologist [1][2]
- Albert Einstein physicist [2][3]
- Queen Elizabeth II British monarch [2]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson writer [2]
- Stephen Emmott scientist [2]
- Rupert Everett actor [2]
F
- Peter Farb author, anthropologist, ecologist [3]
- Jane Fonda actor, activist [2]
- David Foreman environmentalist [1]
- Baroness Flather politician [2]
- Morgan Freeman actor [2]
G
- Bill Gates business leader [2]
- Bob Geldof musician [2]
- Jane Goodall primatologist [6]
- Al Gore US Vice President [2][3]
- James P. Grant UN Under-Secretary-General [2]
- Gunther Grass author [2]
- John Gray philosopher [2]
- Jane Goodall conservationist [2]
- John Guillebaud medical doctor, academic [2]
- Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama [1][2]
H
- Richard Hakluyt writer [2]
- Garrett Hardin environmentalist [1]
- Stephen Hawking physicist [1][2][3]
- Adrian Hayes polar explorer [2]
- Chris Hedges journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister[7]
- John Holdren scientist, coauthor of Ecoscience
- Kate Humble television presenter [2]
- Aldous Huxley writer [2]
- Douglas Hurd UK Foreign Secretary [2]
I
- Jeremy Irons actor [2]
J
- Boris Johnson politician [2]
- Lyndon B Johnson US President [1][2]
- Goodluck Jonathan President of Nigeria [2]
- Ashley Judd actor [2]
K
- Helen Keller author, activist, lecturer [2][4]
- Henry Way Kendall Nobel Laureate, Physics [2][4]
- Nathan Keyfitz demographer [3]
- John Maynard Keynes economist [2]
- David King chemist [2]
L
- Sam Levenson humourist [2]
- Pentti Linkola writer, deep ecologist
- James Lovelock environmentalist [2]
- Martin Luther King, Jr. clergyman, activist [1][2][3][4]
- Joanna Lumley actor [2]
M
- Niccolò Machiavelli writer [2]
- Digby McLaren geologist [2]
- Bill McKibben environmentalist [1]
- Robert McNamara President of World Bank [2]
- James Madison US President [1][2][4]
- Nelson Mandela revolutionary, politician [3]
- Thomas Malthus clergyman, scholar [2]
- Aubrey Manning zoologist [2]
- George Perkins Marsh US diplomat [1]
- Guy McPherson professor emeritus of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology
- John Stuart Mill philosopher [2]
- Spike Milligan comedian [2]
- Helen Mirren actor [2]
- George Monbiot writer [2]
- Farley Mowat author, environmentalist [3]
- Norman Myers environmentalist [2]
N
- Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India [2]
- Richard M. Nixon US President [1][2]
- Bill Nye educator [2]
O
- Thoraya Obaid UN Under-Secretary-General [2]
- Babatunde Osotimehin UN Under-Secretary-General [2]
P
- Chris Packham naturalist [2]
- Michael Palin comedian [2]
- Michael Parenti political scientist [8]
- Sara Parkin activist, politician [2]
- Paul VI Pope [2]
- Alexandra Paul model, childfree population activist
- Fred Pearce environmental writer [2]
- Norm Phelps animal rights activist[9]
- Prince Philip Royal consort [2]
- Jonathon Porritt environmentalist [2]
R
- Ronald Reagan U.S. President [1]
- Charles Lee Remington scientist, cofounder with Ehrlich of ZPG
- John D. Rockefeller, III philanthropist [1]
- Bertrand Russell philosopher [2][3]
S
- Peter Scott founder of WWF [1][2]
- Margaret Sanger birth control activist [3]
- Pete Seeger musician [2]
- Jon Shanklin meteorologist [2]
- Lionel Shriver author [2]
- Karan Singh politician [2]
- William G. Sinkford religious leader [4]
- B.F. Skinner psychologist and author [1][4]
- Maurice Strong UN Under-Secretary-General [2]
T
- Tertullian theologian [2]
- Crispin Tickell environmentalist [2]
- Arnold Toynbee economic historian [1][2]
- Ted Turner billionaire businessman and philanthropist [10]
V
- Gore Vidal writer [2]
- William Vogt author, "Road to Survival"
W
- Paul Watson environmental activist [3]
- Alan Weisman author, professor, journalist
- E. O. Wilson author, "father of biodiversity" [4]
See also
- human population planning
- Category:Population organizations
References
- "Quotes". Better Not Bigger Vermont. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- "Quotes". Population Matters. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- "Quotes". Population Institute Canada.
- "Quotes". World Population Balance. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- Best, Steven (2014). The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 45. ISBN 978-1137471116.
- Garcia, Evan (August 19, 2016). "Jane Goodall: 'Human Population Growth' the Biggest Threat to Chimpanzees". WTTW. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction. Chris Hedges for Truthdig. March 8, 2009
- Parenti, Michael (1997). Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. City Lights Books. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-87286-329-3.
Putting an end to the population explosion will not of itself save the ecosphere, but not ending it will add greatly to the dangers the planet faces. The environment can sustain a quality of life for just so many people.
- Best, Steven (2014). The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan. p. ix. ISBN 978-1137471116.
Human overpopulation, the ever increasing power of our technology, and the demand of our omnicidal, neoliberal economic system of infinite growth on the basis of finite resources threaten the earth with total destruction.
- Bonne, Christian (December 8, 2010). "Ted Turner: Adopt China's one-child policy to save planet". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
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