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Notable Quotes

“There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population.”
– Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day
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“It’s the most important issue on earth – movements of people and growing numbers of people.”
– Martin Litton (1917-2014), Former Director of the Sierra Club
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“You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”
– David Brower (1912-2000), Environmentalist
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Links

Overpopulated Countries, Unsustainable Civilization
Joe Bish, February 27, 2020, Population Media Center

The Biodiversity Crisis Must be Placed Front and Center
Joe Gray and Eileen Crist, 2019, The Ecological Citizen

Shadows of an Animistic World
Claude Willey, Winter 2019, Center for Humans and Nature

Immigration, Population Taking Toll on Environment
Joe Guzzardi,  April 20, 2019, Summit Daily

How Should Ecological Citizens Think about Immigration
Philip Cafaro and Jane O’Sullivan, 2019, ecologicalcitizen.net

On World Population Day, Only Growing Numbers Ahead
Maria Fotopoulos, July 8, 2017, Noozhawk

The Crush of Urbanity: Fact & Fiction
Claude Willey, March 2016, CAPS

Opinion: To Feed the World in 2050 will Require a Global Revolution
Paul R. Ehrlich and John Harte
December 15, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Six Billion, or Fifteen Billion People
A Discussion with Leon Kolankiewicz and Michael Tobias
May 3, 2013, Forbes

Books

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are
Frans de Waal, 2016

Half-Earth / Our Planet’s Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson, 2016

Hope on Earth
Paul R. Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias, 2014

The John A. Livingston Reader, including
The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation and
One Cosmic Instant
with an appreciation by Graeme Gibson
John A. Livingston, 2007

Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation
Philip Cafaro, Eileen Crist, Albert Bartlett, et al, 2012

The Limits to Growth
Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows Jorgen Randers and William Behrens III, 1972

NO VACANCY: Global Responses to the Human Population Explosion
Michael Tobias, Bob Gillespie, Elizabeth Hughes and Jane Gray Morrison, 2006

The Outermost House
Henry Beston, 1928

A Planet of 3 Billion
Christopher Tucker, 2019

The Population Bomb
Paul R. Ehrlich, 1968

The Population Fix: Breaking America’s Addiction to Population Growth
Edward C. Hartman, 2006

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson, 1962

The Sixth Extinction, An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014

The Star Thrower
Introduction by W.H. Auden
Loren Eiseley, 1978

Other Resources

The writings of Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day, are here.

earthday.org

NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Earth Day

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (documentary)

Earth (documentary)

Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (documentary)

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