The 1980s Doomsday Scenario was overpopulation, today’s Doomsday Scenario is Global Warming.

The solution to the 1980’s Doomsday was more and better food to prevent people from starving en masse.

The solution to today’s Doomsday is more energy, provided more cleanly and more cheaply, not less energy supplied more expensively.

There are only three answers to today’s Doomsday scenario in the long run, as I’ve said many times before, and we have (or will have soon) the technology to do it:

Conventional Nuclear Fission, Thermonuclear Fusion, and Exoatmospheric Solar Power.

We should be investing much more in the latter two and we should be vastly expanding the first.

Who will find the answer to the energy Mathusian Catastrophe, I wonder?

I had heard of Norman Bourlag only cursorially, but there went a fine, understated scientist, “born of the soil in Iowa”. He’s the kind of guy that made me want to win the Prize myself. At the time the Nobel Peace Price was something worth achieving. Now, instead of awarding it to someone like the woman from Canada who was the champion of re-forestation efforts (whose name I can’t find, shamefully), the Prize is tossed over to scumbags like Al Gore. I’m still curious if they’ll retract the award if someone manages to prove his theories wrong.

he did WRT the green revolution, improving the lives of hundreds of millions - Rest in Peace. He deserves to be memorialized world-wide, and his name taught in every classroom. Sadly, people who use their talent and intellect to make possible more and bigger pies rarely get the acclaim of those who merely divide up the pies that others make…

It is good that Redstate took time to mention the life of a man who did something great rather than thought about doing something great and expected adulation as a reward.

Here is an article from pajamasmedia and a quote from inside the story,

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-implants-his-political-vision-for-america-%E2%80%94-but-will-it-take/
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“I believe Barack Obama is indeed a thoughtful man. Not a scholar or intellectual, but someone who has an interest in living what the philosophers refer to as “an examined life.” Perhaps no modern president has spent as much time nor traveled so far in an effort to discover meaning and place as far as the threads of his life are concerned. This much was evident before he became president. Dreams from My Father was, if nothing else, a dissertation on one man’s journey of self-discovery and his drive for self-actualization.”
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When I read it, I think I passed out for a second because my blood pressure exploded through the roof. When I regained my senses and wiped the froth from my lips, I did my best to understand the author’s point of view, maybe I got it wrong.

Naah,

Redstate reminded me that what makes this world and mankind worthy are people like Bourlag. A quiet man who saved millions. Compare that to Obama’s latest “They can’t stop me rant.” and you can see unfortunately that we are stuck with both kinds of men, only those with over-sized egos seem to run for office.

I first learned about Dr. Norman Borlaug because Andy Andrews mentioned him in one of his books — showing how one person can make a difference.

But Andrews did something else; he showed how the people who came *before* Dr. Borlaug could take some responsibility for the brilliant scientific work that *he* did much later. That author showed a chain of people and events that had to happen for Norman Borlaug to be able to save those lives through hard work.

Worth considering:

1. Every person who succeeds or fails is carrying on a legacy of those who have influenced or educated or raised them. Our current President should remember that — because most of his governing style is self-congratulatory (not humble like Borlaug) and because Obama’s radical professors, colleagues, and friends *have* influenced him, and are leading to his downfall. (And another obvious point: Thank God Borlaug’s parents did not find his birth inconvenient. They allowed him to live, and that one life did impact the world.)

2. Dr. Borlaug had real results that could be quantified. Real science matters. Not fake science, and not agenda-driven drivel. Borlaug was not a snake oil salesman like the global warming salesmen posing as scientists.

3. Americans are the leaders in bringing hope to the rest of the world. Dr. Borlaug was an example of the exceptionalism of this nation — because of freedom. If the African nationals had been recipients of freedom, they might have been the ones to make these breakthrough discoveries.

4. Freedom will always create the foundation for genius to flourish — in any discipline. Every day, we need to be reminding our fellow citizens of that fact, as we graciously and firmly work to end the termite damage of government encroachment into every aspect of life.

five to the above:
A government sufficiently powerful and controlling to prevent individual failure will inevitably prevent individual greatness as well.