To put some of this into context, there were a lot of people saying that the world was going to run out of food soon and we couldn't sustain our growing populat

To put some of this into context, there were a lot of people saying that the world was going to run out of food soon and we couldn't sustain our growing population. It'd be as if someone today invented a solution to global warming, it was a problem everyone knew about and worried about to some extend.