Norman Borlaug Response

The Norman Borlaug articles main purpose is to basically explain what the world needs to do in order to stop the world hunger issue. At the end of the quarter century, it is projected that the world will have 8.3 billion people inhabiting and consuming the worlds resources (Borlaug). If that statistic is accurate than the world must do something in order to fix the problem or else mostly everyone will go hungry. From this, scientists have been looking into ways to stop this problem through the use of biotechnology. For example, progress has been made into developing cereal variates that can adapt easier to soils that in reality might not be the healthiest places to grow. Since this step has been made, certain cereals can now be harvested in many new places because more arable land has been opened to grow on. Even though this sounds like a great plan, there is the anti science crowd who thinks differently. The fact that these groups do not realize is that if a change is not made in the way we grow our crops, their is no possible way that the world will be able to survive if there is 8.3 billion people trying to survive on our planet.