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Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies at 95

Posted by timothy on from the a-billion-here-a-billion-there dept.

countincognito writes "Norman Borlaug, a genuinely remarkable man and the father of the Green Revolution in agriculture, has died of cancer at his Dallas home aged 95. His life's work on developing high-yield, disease-resistant crops has been credited with having saved an estimated one billion people from famine, and one billion hectares of forest and rainforest from being cleared for agricultural production."

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  1. Re:Ok, Chicken Little by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Damn right! I don't know why people think Borlaug was so great. He wasted his life because the Malthusian Catastrophe is a myth!