But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
Garrett Hardin
RightsRecyclingPropertyPopulation
There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.
Jeri Ryan
BelievePopulationWhoOurLarge
Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.
John Lithgow
MeRestPopulationDifferentHe
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
John Sulston
ChooseMoreResourcesPopulationUse
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
GrowthTimeThoughtWantPopulation
Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.
Mo Ibrahim
WorldAfricaPopulation
Five years from now, 10 years from now, there's going to be a huge Islamic population in the world, they're going to be nationalistic, they're going to be religious, and they're going to be militant.
Chris Matthews
WorldNowYearsGoingPopulation
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
Antony Beevor
ArmySoldiersSovietPopulation
What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.
Svetlana Alexievich
PeopleSmallRememberYouPopulation
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
Susan George
ControlNowClubOutPopulation
What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.
Peter Landesman
ColleaguesYouTrueTellPopulation
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
Timothy Noah
GovernmentRichOddsHoldPopulation
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
Noam Chomsky
PowerRichServingOwnPopulation
The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.
Richard Axel
BehaviorInsightSinglePopulation
When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
Klaus Schwab
WorldPovertyLivedPopulationFour
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
Ernst Mayr
ChangeSmallPopulationIsolated
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
David Ricardo
FoodLandMoreFirstPopulation
He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.
Wilfrid Laurier
ReadyPopulationEnglishWholeThrow
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis
HumanTaskUpPopulationStillLike
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
FailureGivingWhiteUpPopulation
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
GreatManFirstNextPopulationHe
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
PopulationThanThenLessMaximum
Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.
Jeremy Corbyn
OwnershipBackWantPopulationEven
We have fluctuations all the time, business cycles, and they come about in various ways, but normally what sets them off is some reduction in the willingness of our population, our businesses, and foreigners to buy.
Robert Solow
BusinessTimeBuyPopulationOff
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