Civilization As It Is Known Today Could

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.

Some Of The Environmental Lobbyists Of The Western Nations Are The Salt Of The Earth, But Many Of Them Are Elitists. They Have Never Experienced The Physical Sensation Of Hunger. They Do Their Lobbying From Comfortable Office Suites In Washington Or Brussels. If They Lived Just One Month Amid The Misery Of The Developing World, As I Have For Fifty Years, They Would Be Crying Out For Tractors, And Fertilizer, And Irrigation Canals, And Be Outraged That Fashionable Elitists Back Home Were Trying To Deny Them These Things.

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.

There Are No Miracles In Agricultural Production.

The Destiny Of World Civilization Depends Upon Providing A Decent Standard Of Living For All Mankind.