“Norman E. Borlaug, 95, an American plant pathologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for starting the ‘Green Revolution’ that dramatically increased food production in developing nations and saved countless people from starvation, died Saturday at his home in Dallas…. From the 1970s until his death, he increasingly took the politically incorrect view that environmentalists were hampering world food production by indiscriminately attacking the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.” (Washington Post, Monday)
His death hasn’t gotten a fraction of the attention that those of politicians and pop stars get.
FEE Timely Classic
“The Facts about World Hunger” by Jim Peron
