[EveningStar]

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[Kenny Bunk]

.....many [environmental lobbyists] are elitists. They've 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 fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.....

Norman Borlaug

[RJR_fan]

See this comic strip tribute to Norman Borlaug, posted a week or three before his death. Amazing dialog:

Tobi: You know who I really would like to be?

Tobi (2): My all-time favorite personal hero, Norman Borlaug.

Panel 2 Close two-shot of Bert and Ernie.

Bert and Ernie in unison: Who?

Panel 3 Focus on Tobi, with the others gathered around him.

Tobi: Who was the Cambodian leader who murdered over a quarter of his countrymen? Everyone else in unison: Pol Pot!

Panel 4 Switch angles, now Tobi's back to us and we can see everyone else facing him.

Tobi: And what two 'world leaders' shared the distinction of having murdered their own countrymen somewhere in the eight-figure range?

Everyone else in unison: Stalin, Mao!

Panel 5 Medium close-up on Tobi, holding up a professorial finger.

Tobi: So you know these monsters who spilled an ocean of blood, but you don't have a clue about the hero who was the Green Revolution. The man who saved the lives of over a billion fellow human beings.

Panel 6 Group shot, put Ernie on the left and Tobi on the right.

Ernie: Uh, I'm guessing 'Norman Borlaug?'

Tobi: You should look him up in the Tanglepedia. It's inspiring.

[happygrl]

This man is considered to have saved a billion lives.

[holly go-rightly]

wishing to be pinged, please and thank you

[Liberty Valance]

Incredible tribute to a great American. Many thanks to Iowahawk and to you for posting.

[redgolum]

The biggest hero that no one knew.