america has lifted more people out of poverty than any nation in the history of the worldhttps://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1117857999127662592 …
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Patents and not supported his work. By supporting his work many estimates suggest he saved between 1 to 2 billion lives during the 20th century and started the "Green Revolution" which didnt just save lives but directly grew world wide economies by trillions
i didn’t actually know anything about the grain stuff — what are your favorite sources on this?
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My understanding is that Malthus wasn’t wrong, we just completely revamped the tech. I think similar happened with “peak oil”.
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malthus was absolutely wrong — proven historically and ALSO counterfactually. like, at the time he was writing he was already wrong. check out merchants of despair by
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Hmmm.. I dont have a favorite source. I mean Norman Borlaug is relatively well known and documented and you can find a lot of good sources via Google. Let me try to remember but if I recall correctly their is a government site just devoted to US sharing of agriculture tech.
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I'll try to dig it up latter tonight
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