Zitat des Tages über Überbevölkerung / Overpopulation:
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed.
As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'