A FOME NO MUNDO

Habitual destaque para a coluna semanal do fisico Robert Park:

WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 22 Oct 09 Washington, DC1.

HUNGER: THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE BILLION HUNGRY PEOPLE.

"Scientific experts from around the world met in Rome last week to discuss the problem of feeding a rapidly growing human population in a world facing a severe shortage of water for irrigation and the diversion of agriculture to biofuel. In his 1970 Nobel acceptance speech, Norman Borlaug, who led the green revolution, knew that hunger had not been abolished: "For we are dealing with two opposing forces, the scientific power of food production and the biologic power of human reproduction… There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort." A fertility rate less than two would ameliorate every problem humanity faces. What will it take for the world to learn?"