There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?
Norman BorlaugThis is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
Norman BorlaugPlant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
Norman BorlaugAlmost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the worldโs population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug