Saluting Norman Borlaug’s scientific, agricultural and humanitarian legacy
“Since when did you become a global warming alarmist?” I kidded Norman midway into our telephone conversation a few weeks before this amazing scientist and humanitarian died.
“What are you talking about?” Dr. Borlaug retorted. “I’ve never believed that nonsense.”
I read a couple sentences from his July 29 Wall Street Journal article. “Within the next four decades, the world’s farmers will have to double production … on a shrinking land base and in the face of…



