In Memoriam

[aggiebell90]

I just read that Norman Borlaug died yesterday.

If y'all want to know about an amazing scientist--a true humanitarian, and just a great, great man, he's someone you should study. A Nobel Laureate, he's best known as the Father of the Green Revolution, and is credited with literally saving millions and millions of people (some estimates say upwards

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[vegablack62]

How could anyone think that you were wasting time developing new strains of food? It is a testimony to how successful Mr. Borlaug was that we have so much food even among the very very poor that people don't need to think about it and consider it of the greatest importance. If we had had the mass widespread famine Borlaug's work averted they wouldn't be talking this way.

My husband says of him that he was a man who truly did his work for the reasons he named. He wanted to feed people and end hunger. He didn't care about fame. (My husband witnessed a famine in his home country when he was a small child. They haven't had one since. Borlaug's work benefited his country as well.)

This was a man who deserved his noble prize.

How very very cool that he is pictured with your work. What a great honor for you.

[aggiebell90]

You know, if I had to name someone on my flist who would've responded to this entry, yours would've been one of the first I picked. :)

Most of the people who ask why I'd study plants have been young (self-absorbed) college students. I cut them a little slack--they'll learn soon enough (and I know I might've asked a similar question when I was younger). I think a lot of the time, they just really don't think past "I need to get some lettuce at the store," y'know? They don't think about what goes into growing the lettuce--that it was actually growing somewhere once, just like the fruits and vegetables they eat. For some of them, they just can't even conceive that those apples they're eating came from a tree, just like they never think about that hamburger they had for lunch once being part of a cow

[ohginnyfan]

Matt and I learned about him last year in his 7th grade science class. I ended up looking him up more thoroughly because of his work. How very cool to have met him, and that the picture is more than likely your plant and greenhouse.

*hugs*