“In the next 40 years we’re going to have produce as much food as was produced in [the] last 8,000.”
—Jason Clay, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund
The above quotation was taken from Andrew Revkin’s March 3rd post on his blog Dot Earth at the New York Times. The post’s title is “A Hybrid Path to Feeding 9 Billion on a Still-Green Planet.” In it, Revkin examines the issues of feeding many, many people, and, among other things, the role that genetically modified food might play.
I admit it. I am one of those folks who is very skeptical about genetically modified food. But that quotation sure caught my attention.
Notes From the Hinterland 