Borlaug: "two opposing forces"

In his Friday Newsletter (What’s New), physicist Bob Parks notes the passing of Norman Borlaug, a “brilliant scientist” whose “work in agronomy led to the Green Revolution and saved perhaps 1 billion lives.”

Park quotes from Borlaug’s 1970 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:

"We are dealing with two opposing forces, the scientific power of food production and the biologic power of human reproduction. . . Man also has acquired the means to reduce the rate of human reproduction, effectively and humanely . . . but has not yet used this potential adequately. There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until food production and population control unite in a common effort."