[Vigilanteman]

Norman Borlaug was truly one of the greatest minds and humanitarians of the 20th century. He was quietly doing his great work to increase crop yields in places like Mexico and India while the Malthusians held sway when I came of age in the 1970s.

The Malthusian crowd was as loud and dominant then as the global warming crowd is today. Their meme was that the new ice age was going to freeze us all to death if the growing population and shrinking food supplies didn't starve us to death first.

Naturally, their prescription was exactly the same as the prescription of their modern counterparts: give us total control and we'll save the planet.

Most of those jackwagons then, as now, did not even know the name of Norman Borlaug.

[Psalm 144]

The Malthusian crowd was as loud and dominant then as the global warming crowd is today. Their meme was that the new ice age was going to freeze us all to death if the growing population and shrinking food supplies didn’t starve us to death first.

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I remember it well.