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RIP, Norman Borlaug

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Gus9/14/2009 5:33:33 pm PDT

re: #63 zombie

Excellent find! Thanks.

Considering that Ehrlich’s prime colleague and champion John Holdren is now our nation’s science advisor, one might amend that final sentence in the quote to read:

“Whether it’s Brown or Ehrlich or Holdren or the head of the Sierra Club or the head of Greenpeace…”

As for the “Brown” in that quote, I presume he’s referring to Harrison Brown, John Holdren’s idol and role model.

Reading the Harrison Brown quote on the column to the right. I hope that things begin to change and was see a return to the likeness of Norman Borlaug. That we can move forward to serve mankind and implement practical real-world solutions as opposed to rhetorical intellectual dogma that serves nothing but itself. I guess you can say that Holdren and Brown liked to hear themselves talk while Borlaug saw a solution and worked on it. Almost like the difference between the similarly gaseous art critics compared to the artists themselves.