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.
NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Earth Day
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (documentary)
Earth (documentary)
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (documentary)
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