Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know about agriculture? Secretary Hardin is an economist. You can take all the economists in the world and lay them end to end, and they'll never come to a conclusion. My initial reaction to Dr. Butz? Oh hell, another professor! I was hoping for someone from the soil. But I'm reserving judgment until I find out what his policies and programs are going...
...agricultural chemicals being promoted today by fear-provoking, irresponsible environmentalists." Today's greatest danger, Borlaug pointed out. is the pressure put on food supplies by the world's rapidly growing population. Fully 50% of mankind is undernourished, perhaps another 15% is malnourished. To make matters worse, the soil in many developing nations is worn out, and crops are ravaged by ravenous insects. The need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides is not only clear, Borlaug said, but imperative...
Mountains and Jungles. Indonesia's resources are as vast as the country itself, which ranks fifth in the world in population. There are 300 million acres of teak, sandalwood, ebony and other valuable timber, at least one-fortieth of the world's oil reserves under the soil and probably far more offshore, and unmeasured quantities of copper and nickel ore. Experts estimate that Ertsberg Mountain in West Irian, which is the Indonesian half of New Guinea, contains 33 million tons of copper, gold, silver and iron ore all by itself...
...industrial community. Later this month Boeing will begin construction of a 42-in. irrigation pipeline. The company plans to plant a potato crop in March, and it has sublet part of the tract to Japanese chicken growers, who will use the land to grow alfalfa. To enrich the sandy soil. Boeing and a Portland group, Columbia Processors Cooperative, are experimenting with a fertilizer made from Portland's waste products. "Even for the Boeing Co.," says Aerospace Vice President Oliver Boileau, "it's never too late to start hauling manure, irrigating land and planting potatoes...
Commoner does not oppose all technology. Indeed, he recognizes the need to develop nonpolluting systems of land transportation, for example, and ways of returning garbage directly to the soil. But he urges a return wherever possible to products that are kind to the environment, and suggests the use of natural rubber instead of synthetic material, and soap instead of detergents. That approach would mean the closing down of huge industries and would be immensely costly-at least $600 billion in the U.S. alone, Commoner estimates, or more likely $40 billion annually for 25 years...