We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the stark reality of global overpopulation and food scarcity.
Norman Borlaug's quote addresses the critical challenge faced by humanity regarding food production and population growth. He points out the alarming disparity between the current world population and the capacity of the agricultural system to adequately feed it, suggesting that we cannot simply wish away the problem, and emphasizes the need for realistic solutions to sustain the growing population without sacrificing lives.
In practice
In discussions about global food security at a conference.
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago
We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.
This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.
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