Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug died on the 12th, just a couple of days ago. I’m a bit behind the curve on this guy although I’ve heard about him and his work before. He is credited with saving over 250 million people from starvation and over a billion people from hunger by introducing farming techniques to the third world. Read his wiki entry here.
One thing he did say was ‘One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy’. He was in a good position to recognise that as all his work was being sabotaged by a bunch of whingy whiney greenies in bureaucracies around the world.
If only there were more like him there would be a lot fewer problems in the world.
If only for that quotation, he is to be remembered.
Well he came out with that quote when he was being screwed over by the UN and other whingy whiney environmentalist groups whilst he was trying to do the same thing in Africa.