The Man Who Saved a Billion Lives

Norman Borlaug has died.

He justly lived a long life. But his death won’t get a thousandth of the coverage, say, Michael Jackson’s did. And it won’t get a tenth of the coverage someone like Paul Ehrlich’s will.

All Borlaug did was invent modern high-yield agriculture, then teach it to the world. He likely saved a billion people from starving to death in India and Pakistan alone.

He was a great man. If one way of measuring a life is by the number of other lives a man saved or bettered, Borlaug was certainly one of the greatest human beings who ever lived.

Rest in peace.

From Radley Balko's blog.

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