would ultimately destroy the planet or the quality of life for humans and that you're simply you know malthus well first of all i'm man and anything i'm a journalist i talk to people who are called the old bell fusee in the in the in see how they justify it and here's what i learned. this made his famous prediction back in seventy ninety eight the world was not very crowded then and people weren't dying of starvation all that much. but his latter day analogues pollen and the erle who. wrote the population bomb had appeared in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight said the same thing that they saw that the world was now at three and a half million and it was getting very crowded and they predicted famines for india for pakistan and other parts of the world because. there is no way that food production could keep up with population growth but then lo and behold what happened actually the air looks said in their preface unless there's some miracle of agriculture and that miracle agriculture which we now call the green revolution took place norman bore log in his center for wheat and corn in mexi

even though everybody started saying well look this disproves malthus. when norman borlaug won the nobel peace prize for this he was credited with having saved more lives than anybody in history . he didn't gloat what he said it's acceptance speech was we've bought some time for the world unless the population problem is handled in conjunction with the food production problem we're never going to be able to feed everybody and disaster will eventually strike because there are limits to how much we can possibly produce and. we're coming to those limits when i went to india and pakistan i found that we're reaching some of those limits we. india is about to surpass china now is the most populous nation on earth pakistan is one of the fastest growing and it's a country that's just frankly out of control it's it's a dangerous country it was a lot of mayhem when i was there some of the people i need to interview i didn't get to because they were floating tortured in the kharaj he would boom this is a daily occurrence there and when you've got a whole population