The American agronomist and humanitarian Norman Borlaug, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, died from cancer in Dallas yesterday, aged 95. Borlaug was considered “the father of the Green Revolution” and his discoveries are estimated to have saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having contributed to world peace through increasing food supply, particularly in Asia and Latin America.
This award may be seen as a forerunner of recent years’ awards to laureates such as Wangari Maathai, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, and Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who have received the Peace Prize for work less directly connected to wars and conflicts but rather to substainable development and thereby prevention of wars and conflicts.
Washington Post reports:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091300375.html?hpid=topnews
Sunday 13 September 2009
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You may be right, sir, in what the Norwegian Nobel Committee asserts as the motivation for giving the prize to the climate change monger Albert Gore, Jr.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Mr. Gore is the one employing war rhetorics, and if we were to use the resources in a way some of these people suggest, there would propably be more resource shortage, and hence more conflict.