Nitrogen Quote by Alan Weisman

Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to feed its…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

— Norman Borlaug

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

— Bill Gates

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face of a…

— Michael Pollan

How many people is the earth able to sustain?

— Isaac Asimov

Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to feed every…

— Michael Dorris

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to…

— Anonymous

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in…

— Nina Fedoroff

When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion.…

— Tony Blair

I don't think scientists can dictate from above what we should do, because it's not a matter of scientific decision. If you want to…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

— Nina Fedoroff

The number of children in the world is not growing, and so we eventually have a chance to stabilize the population at around 10…

— Johan Rockstrom