Everything Else Can Wait, Agriculture Can’t.

Food Is The Moral Right Of All Who Are Born Into This World.

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.

To This Day, I Enjoy Nature, The Luxury Of Undisturbed Wilderness, Forests, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers And Deserts And Their Wildlife. But I Also Know That The Greatest Danger To Their Perpetuity Is The Pressure Of Human Population.

Therefore I Feel That The Aforementioned Guiding Principle Must Be Modified To Read: If You Desire Peace, Cultivate Justice, But At The Same Time Cultivate The Fields To Produce More Bread; Otherwise There Will Be No Peace.

The Green Revolution Has An Entirely Different Meaning To Most People In The Affluent Nations Of The Privileged World Than To Those In The Developing Nations Of The Forgotten World.