WERE THE DOOMSAYERS RIGHT AFTER ALL?

The doomsayers of the 1960s said we’d run out of food; they said the environment was under threat. They were pooh-poohed on both counts. Now our attempts to solve one problem have made the other predication come true. “Something must be done to ensure [that] both the United States and Europe stop producing fuel in competition with food”. “People can no longer be allowed to starve to death in Africa simply because some people in the United States or the European Union consider that the votes of farmers or landowners are worth more than the survival of millions of men and women”.