🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong.
Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.
dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it
I see many quoting ancient authors(Thucydides,etc)when trying to find applicable passages to the Iran war. But this is to miss the forest for the trees.The ancients made a big point of condemning HUBRIS as a factor in the humbling of powerful peoples/states.We are drowning in it.
There are multiple scenarios in which the “same fertilizer wheat blend on every field” meets all 4R BMPs. A bunch of https://t.co/PKlFQU5GA8.’s piling on, whilst having 0 skin in the game, 0 concept of logistics, oh and let me guess, you’ve got something I can buy that’s..1/2