Norman Borlaug - A Real Hero RIP

I would like to call attention to and pay tribute to Norman Borlaug, who just died at 95. He was a brilliant man from the heartland of America who revolutionized food production - in my opinion he positively transformed the world as no single person of our lifetimes has. The Wall Street Journal says that "he saved more lives than anyone who ever lived."

Norman committed his life to ending hunger. The conventional wisdom (and likely fact) several decades ago was that world population would quickly eclipse food production - and that the world would run out of food! Norman created new farming techniques that exponentially increased yields; and then spent his life in developing countries to teach the locals how to implement.

One example - he and his team arrived in South Asia during the onset of war between India and Pakistan - instead of turning right around, they worked through artillery fire etc...and in three years, Pakistan was self-sufficient in wheat production and within six years, India was self-sufficient in all cereals production!

It reminds me of this - "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." Millions of lifetimes exist because of Norman Borlaug, a real hero.