Just as the appearance of chemical fertilizers in the 1960s and 1970s permitted a huge increase in grain production, and rescued humankind from the violence that might have resulted from the population explosion, he also places his hopes for today in a technological revolution.
就像化學肥料的出現讓糧食大量增產，挽救了人類因人口爆炸而可能發生的戰爭一樣，他也寄希望於新的科技革命。