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640 pages, Audio CD
First published January 23, 2018
[Borlaug] asked me if I had ever been to a place where most of the people weren't getting enough to eat. "Not just poor, but actually hungry all the time," he said. I told him that I hadn't been to such a place. "That's the point," he said. "When I was getting started, you couldn't avoid them."
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.--i.e. How can you address “over-population” without unpacking the immense local and global inequalities in the distribution of resources?! To not address the power structures that cause such inequalities (not to mention the profit motive's wanton destruction of sustainable solutions) will only perpetuate the assumption that it is somehow natural to the human condition. Liberal contradictions and subsequent crises provide fertile grounds for more reactionary forces.