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With that, here's another piece of the mosaic of the popes of Rome and Christian Church, and I will definitely be talking to you more soon.

By the name of Norman Borlaug, who due to his ingenuity and ability to cross-pollinate wheat and make it more resilient in different climates, basically save 2 billion people from starvation. I want to do a little

bit of table setting about Vorlog and the era in which he lived. So one of the great fears of the

20th century and the conventional wisdom among the smart set is that the challenge that was going

to happen and the greatest

threat to global civilization was overpopulation. This goes back to Thomas Malthus, but there

were books about this. If you go and watch movies from the 60s and 70s, there's Soil and Green

with Charlton Heston, where future New York has 40 billion people or 40 million.

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