Everything Else Can Wait, Agriculture Can’t.

Civilization As It Is Known Today Could Not Have Evolved, Nor Can It Survive, Without An Adequate Food Supply.

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.

I Am But One Member Of A Vast Team Made Up Of Many Organizations, Officials, Thousands Of Scientists, And Millions Of Farmers - Mostly Small And Humble - Who For Many Years Have Been Fighting A Quiet, Oftentimes Losing War On The Food Production Front.

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.

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