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.
Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
If the last to know heβs an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
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