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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
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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.
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
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The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
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