""It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable." (Übersetzung: "Es ist schrecklich, das sagen zu müssen. Die Weltbevölkerung muss stabilisiert werden, und dafür müssten wir täglich 350.000 Menschen eliminieren. Es ist so unvorstellbar daran zu denken, dass wir das eigentlich nicht sagen sollten. Aber unsere Gesamtsituation ist beklagenswert.") Interview mit Bahgat Elnadi und Adel Rifaat, "UNESCO Courier", November 1991 p. 13"
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1910 – 1997
französischer Meeresforscher
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