Environmentalism kills

In March 1914, in a small town in Iowa, Norman Borlaug was born into a family of Norwegian immigrants. He is one of those cases in history in which a man goes unnoticed by the collective culture despite having had an unparalleled influence on the development of humanity. In 1970 he received the Nobel Peace Prize after saving millions of human lives through his genetic studies on cereals. Borlaug was able to develop new, much more productive varieties that multiplied global cereal production, enabling millions of people around the world to be fed. There are estimates that Borlaug has saved more lives than Alexander Fleming. Still, don’t look for him in school textbooks. He does not appear.

When the first apocalyptic discourses warned us in the late 18th century of the tragedies to come due to lack of resources, their creator — Thomas Malthus — made the mistake of failing to understand the unique uniqueness of human beings. He overlooked our capacity to adapt, our intellect to develop technology and to be able to increase the supply of natural resources. As Julian Simon said, resources are not, resources are made and it is human beings who make them. Malthus was not able to understand this. His whole population theory is a huge intellectual error, just as all the current trends that are leading us away from the human race are intellectually wrong.

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