"We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going……" — Nina Fedoroff
"We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops."
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25 Quotes by Nina Fedoroff
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There are probably already too many people on the planet.
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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
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We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th…
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The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,
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If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
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Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
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I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
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The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
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Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.
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As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever…
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