re: #47 NukeAtomrod

I love that guy. His research squelched the over-population vs. food supply fears held by people like John Holdren.

Norm Borlaug’s work was the reason those fears weren’t realized. In the early 60s, the notion of a global famine before the end of the century was very real and credible. Borlaug and the Green Revolution (which had nothing to do with political greens) quadrupled grain yields in some of the most crucial and threatened areas, essentially resetting the fuse on the “population bomb.”