Man Can And Must Prevent The Tragedy

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?

Man's Survival, From The Time Of Adam And Eve Until The Invention Of Agriculture, Must Have Been Precarious Because Of His Inability To Ensure His Food Supply.

I Now Say That The World Has The Technology - Either Available Or Well Advanced In The Research Pipeline - To Feed On A Sustainable Basis A Population Of 10 Billion People. The More Pertinent Question Today Is Whether Farmers And Ranchers Will Be Permitted To Use This New Technology? While The Affluent Nations Can Certainly Afford To Adopt Ultra Low-risk Positions, And Pay More For Food Produced By The So-called "organic" Methods, The One Billion Chronically Undernourished People Of The Low Income, Food-deficit Nations Cannot.

Almost Certainly, However, The First Essential Component Of Social Justice Is Adequate Food For All Mankind.

Man Seems To Insist On Ignoring The Lessons Available From History.