RIP Norman Borlaug

Since I have been out of contact with the world for stretches being the netless nomad, I did not get a chance to comment on the passing of one of the more influential and unknown human beings of the 20th Century, Norman Borlaug. The 1970 Nobel Prize winner for his work on creating high yield wheat, his work allowed billions to live and reduced the amount of land required to be cultivated to support the world's food supply. His work angered the usual elitist environmental groups who decried the use of chemicals to increase crop yields, to which he reponded :

“Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the
earth, but many of them 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.”

Anyone who would call out the hypocrites in the so called "green movement" who live in mansions while complaining about high yield crops gets praise from me. RIP to the great humanitarian, Norman Borlaug.