Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right.
Interpretation
We need to change our perspective on water, viewing it as a valuable resource rather than an unlimited gift.
This quote by Norman Borlaug emphasizes the importance of reevaluating our relationship with water. It suggests that we should recognize water as a precious resource that requires careful management, rather than assuming it is an inexhaustible free good that is naturally provided to us by nature.
In practice
In a presentation on environmental awareness, one might quote Borlaug to stress the necessity of sustainable water management.
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.
We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
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.
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.
Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.
The earth says have a place, be what that place_x000D_ requires; hear the sound the birds imply_x000D_ and see as deep as ridges go behind_x000D_ each other.
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
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