Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

• 人类能够而且必须预防未来发生的饥荒，而不是像过去一样在饥荒发生以后假仁假义地去拯救由饥荒带来的灾难。