THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD...


The Real Heroes We Never Hear About…

Our country certainly raises questions…

We cover in detail every sordid drunkenness of our young stars….their antics and peregrinations as if they really had something to say outside of their own self-adulation, mind boggling assault on our senses, drug addictions, and distorted realities which are further fueled by our blind-sided adoration of these altered beings…

At the same time, the media that promises to deliver all of the news in thirty minutes (less fifteen minutes for commercial, give or take…)….doesn’t even give a nod to those who really are Americans, who make contributions every day to our way of life, who are responsible in the welter of stupidity that floods our airwaves, to actually make a quantifiable difference in how we live our lives…

One of these is a 93 year old man whom nobody has ever hear of. Yet, he is only one of five who has earned the Congressional gold medal, the President’s Medal of Freedom , and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Why is he so important?

Well, for starters, he saved one billion people….and there aren’t too many folks who can say that either now or ever.

His story is worth hearing and worth telling if you have the time.

But suffice it to say, Mr. Borlaug is an agronomist with a few ideas to stave off hunger and Malthusian visions of starvation.

Nobody believed he could do what he said he could do.

But he proved it in Mexico and then went on to prove it in China and elsewhere in the world.

What he did was design various types of wheat that could survive drought and weather extremes and still grow and provide food for the poor and the hungry. The techniques that he developed literally tripled grain production throughout the world.

You can’t even begin to imagine his contribution yet virtually no one has ever heard a word about him. His name is Norman Bourlaug

And families around the world will have to thank for the lives of their children.

A little something to think about when all we hear is about drugs, alcohol, sexual promiscuity and bucking heads with the law.

Wouldn’t it be nice that instead of devoting all their time to this rubbish, they took a moment out to pay tribute to the man who saved a billion people.

Just a thought!

Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon