INTRODUCTION To Pyramid

With the earth's wide open spaces, enormous expanses on

which to grow
food, seemingly limitless water and only [6.6 in 2004--ED.]
billion people in
existence, one person in every nine is starving to death. That
many are
literally dying from lack of food; they are not just hungry, as
is an even
greater percentage of the world's population.
How, then, can mankind possibly hope to feed [them]sel[ves]
by the time
there are sixteen people alive for every one here today? This
is a dilemma
which I hope to provide a means of solving with this book. It
is a problem to
which I am dedicating my life's work.
These are the figures which day by day have been growing
steadily more
stark within my mind. Every time I turn on the radio, read a
newspaper, or
watch a TV program, I see hammered home the fact that while
I am well and
satisfyingly fed, myriads of other people mostly in
underdeveloped countries
throughout the world, are suffering from the wormlike
threadings of hunger
pains in their bellies as they lie down to sleep at night.
Life on our world is powered by light. Light from the Sun,
which passes
through the clear air, is harvested by plants and powers them
to combine
carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and other
foodstuffs, which in
turn provide the staple diet of herbivorous animals and people