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Norman Borlaug – father of Green revolution – likely saved over 1 billion lives (wikipedia.org)
12 points by gurjeet 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Not discussed ,but implicit mentioned ,the practices advocated for pushed a dependency on non extractive, non colonial trade. Which reveals the colonial "my country" first empires as the murderous monstrositys they really were. Getting "starved" out by some empire was a horrifying comon thing before the world wars.




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