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.
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.
All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you.
There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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