When Doctor Borlaug set out to improve crops in Mexico his path in science created the "Green Revolution" that stopped the starvation of many million human lives. He was solely responsible for the current economic miracle in China and in India. No other person in the recorded history of mankind has ever had such positive effect on humanity.
Dr. Borlaug also pointed the scientific way forward for others to develop improvement in crops that is still a 'new' invention even though crops genetically modified in a lab instead of in seed trials have been in use for twenty years.
When Borlaug began his work in the sixties, dozens of books were being published about the coming catastrophes brought on by world hunger. Borlaug alone removed the threat and his success has arguably removed it for ever.
I doubt he ever imagined a goal of affecting the entire world in food security, social change and political change but that is what he achieved.
Borlaug used fact and reason to solve problems. If only ideologues could see the value of his approach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
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