Norman Borlaug, RIP

It turns out what I've been told is not as straight-forward as I thought, mainly because it's impossible to really quantify what he accomplished. He still accomplished a lot, whatever the guesstimates are on the number of lives he saved.

I'm also not completely comfortable with his whole attitude about there being "too many" humans in poor families. At least he has the ability to admit that while he wished poor people in poor countries had less children, that is not the reality, so we have to deal with the realities of today, as they are, not as environments wish they (or he, I guess) were.