So many of significance through the millennia!

In scientific endeavour, few had an impact as directly quantifiable as Norman Borlaug, who likely liberated over a billion humans from the threat of starvation during the last century.

That his agricultural revolution drove a stake through the heart of misanthropic Malthusianism is, of course, an added bonus.

Entertaining read on this topic: Charles Mann’s “The Wizard and The Prophet”.