In my eyes he shames the greed of the bankers. Bankers have become notorious for the killing they have made out of the tax-payer. While small businesses have gone down the shoot and unemployment has soared and more families found their homes repossessed there is the cry to “look at the bankers, the bankers whose high-rolling risk-taking triggered the recession that has so exacerbated public rage at MPs. The bankers seem to be waltzing off with a song on their lips and their hands in their pockets - at least, their hands would be in their pockets if they were not stuffed with money. And when I say stuffed, I mean bulging, bursting, ballooning with the biggest bonuses you ever saw,” says the Telegraph.
So it is good to read that not everyone is like that! A better read and example to us all is someone who slipped off the scene of life a few months ago. I had never heard of him until recently - but then his kind of fame does not get publicised. “If Borlaug actually had been famous, his claim to fame would have been that, as the father of the “Green Revolution,” he saved hundreds of millions, perhaps even a billion, lives. As one writer put it, Borlaug’s work is why “food today is cheap and widely available, and why famines have become relatively rare events.”
“As the Los Angeles Times noted in its obituary, “in 1960, the world produced 692 million tons of grain for 2.2 billion people.” Thirty years later, thanks to Borlaug’s pioneering efforts in areas such as fertilizers, drought-resistant seeds, and high-yield agriculture, mankind was producing three times as much grain while only using 1 percent more land.” To read the complete article click on Norman Borlaug. To read a more extensive article on Norman Borlaug go to Wikipedia.
