Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.