[TChris]

Another amazing American hero, ignored by the State-Run Media...

[steve-b]

The “population bomb” scenario overlooked the fact that people naturally stop having so many children as their standard of living and education improves — it makes sense to concentrate on quality over quantity.

[GOPJ]

Another damnation of our MSM - they “missed” on the story about this good man....

[rlmorel]

I read about this man the day he died.

I had never heard of him. What an amazing story, an amazing man. The architect of the Green Revolution.

[Alberta's Child]

The same thing happened back in the 1960s and 1970s with population growth alarmist Paul Ehrlich and his former student Julian Simon.

[xcamel]

Great article.

[Buckeye McFrog]

and yet Paul Erlich goes right on collecting fat campus speaking fees, including one from my alma mater. (sigh)

[Cicero]

I had heard about Borlaug’s work on increasing food yields, but it was many years ago. Nothing I can remember for the past couple of decades.

If the truth be told, the envirofanatics would rather have seen those billion lives he saved ended, even though as Borlaug points out the unintended consequence of NOT improving food yields would probably have been cutting down most of the world’s forests for farmland.

That still is their secret wish—to kill off a few billion people in order to “save the Earth.” That’s why Borlaug and his work are largely ignored.

[dead]

Trendy environmentalism was catching on, and affluent environmentalists began to say it was "inappropriate" for Africans to have tractors or use modern farming techniques. Borlaug told me a decade ago that most Western environmentalists "have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things."

Great man of vision.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Another amazing American hero, ignored by the State-Run Media...

The Indians, who he did so much to help, didn't forget him:

Terming the death of agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug as the end of an era, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday described him as one with a 'towering intellect' who 'helped millions of people escape from a life of hunger and deprivation'.

I sincerely hope our own president had something to say about Borlaug's life and contributions, but so far I've found nothing.

But then, Obama has surrounded himself with environmentalists like population-control advocate John Holdren, who argued that Borlaug's techniques would never stop worldwide famine. In the world of environmentalism, being proven right or wrong are nothing - what matter is conformance to environmentalism.

[ForegoneAlternative]

Nephew graduated from Dartmouth a while back.

Tom Brokaw gave the commencement speech, his tired, and emetic, “Greatest Generation” schtick so he could sell a few more books. This from a guy who spent every weekday evening of his adult life being a traitor to his country. He droned on and on. Posing his Trademarked Craggy Visage in all directions for the fawning Baby Boomer CoolPixes. Vomiting one last dribble of cryptofeudal “liberalism” into the minds of Generation Next — before they finally got to learn how the world really works after two decades of helicopter parenting, playdates, and “educational” pseudoscience.

And there, to pick up his umpteenth honorary doctorate, was Norman Borlaug, who said practically nothing at all, just smiling and picking up yet another sheepskin to stick on the considerable pile of same back in College Station.

Talk about going from a moral sewer to a skyscraper of the human spirit in the space of a single dais.

[VOA]

There-goes-a-good-man bump.

My brother is still proud to have attended classes in Borlaug Hall
where he got his Masters in plant sciences.

Despite his humble bachelors degree from a “State U.” from below the
Mason-Dixon Line.

[SunkenCiv]

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