John Lennon and Yoko on Over Population
“Yeah, I don’t believe in overpopulation you know. I think that’s just a kind of myth that government have thrown out to keep your mind off Vietnam and Ireland and all the important subjects.”
Dick Cavett Show – aprox 1972
I think it’s a bit of a joke the way people have made this overpopulation thing into a kind of myth I don’t really believe it you know I think whatever happens will balance itself out and work itself out.
It’s all right for us all living saying oh well there’s enough of us so we won’t have any more don’t let anybody else live I don’t believe in that I think we’ve got enough food and money to feed everybody and I think the natural balance even though old people are last longer or there’s enough room for us and some of them can go to the moon anyway.
Yeah, I don’t believe in overpopulation you know. I think that’s just a kind of myth that government have thrown out to keep your mind off Vietnam and Ireland and all the important subjects.
Oh, I think you’re wrong about that.
Oh, I don’t care.