Quote by Thomas Malthus
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. – Thomas Malthus

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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Knowledge
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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

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Equality
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I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. – Thomas Malthus

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Food
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. – Galen Rowell

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Time after time were told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards – giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. – Richard Trumka

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environmental

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. – Samuel Wilson

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There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. Thats considerable in a country thats used to being protected. – Jean-Francois Cope

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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get. – Confucius

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The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself. – Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 1953

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