Deplete Quotes (3 quotes)
By the mid-1950s manatees were already scarce, and monk seals, once common as far north as Galveston, were gone. By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
From 'My Blue Wilderness', National Geographic Magazine (Oct 2010), 77.
The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that is, to the area’s carrying capacity. When is an area overpopulated? When its population can’t be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources…. By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated.
In The Population Explosion (1990), 39.
Though rich in places, Britain as a whole is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.
From narration to BBC TV documentary, 'Saving Our Wild Isles', Wild Isles (2023), Ep. 6. As quoted in Barbara Ellen, 'Review: The week in TV: Wild Isles', The Guardian, (19 Mar 2023), on theguardian.com website.