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Norman Borlaug Quotes: We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
         

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.


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You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.



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

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



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



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Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.



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





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