More Borlaug - a two-fer
Yesterday, I posted about Dr. Norman Borlaug. I found two other good mentions on the web this morning.
First -- this 1997 article by Gregg Easterbrook at
The Atlantic:
Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity
America has three living winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, two universally renowned and the other so little celebrated that not one person in a hundred would be likely to pick his face out of a police lineup, or even recognize his name. The universally known recipients are Elie Wiesel, who for leading an exemplary life has been justly rewarded with honor and acclaim, and Henry Kissinger, who in the aftermath of his Nobel has realized wealth and prestige. America's third peace-prize winner, in contrast, has been the subject of little public notice, and has passed up every opportunity to parley his award into riches or personal distinction. And the third winner's accomplishments, unlike Kissinger's, are morally unambiguous. Though barely known in the country of his birth, elsewhere in the world Norman Borlaug is widely considered to be among the leading Americans of our age.
Second -- this excerpt from
Instapundit:
AN AMERICAN HERO: Remembering Norman Borlaug. Quoth Borlaug, who saved over a billion lives:�(Most Western environmentalists) have 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 50 years, they�d be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things.�
So true - the policy makers have no basis in fact. They have never cut a paycheck, have never balanced an account, have never really
worked for a living...
Posted by DaveH at March 26, 2014 10:25 AM