The Man Who Tried to Feed the World (2020) FULL SPECIAL | American Experience | PBA America

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World recounts the story of Norman Borlaug, a man who not only solved India’s famine problem but would go on to lead a “Green Revolution” of worldwide agriculture programs estimated to have saved one billion lives. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work but spent the rest of his life watching his methods and achievements come under increasing fire.
First Broadcast Date: April 21, 2020
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[@Ai-he1dp]

Poverty is an evil, those who propoergate poverty are evil, weather that be an individual, a company or country.

[@miriamwilson9542]

What a marvelous man. God bless him.

[@vanjamatic3972]

"We'll eat our wheat and ham and eggs and let them eat their gold." 💖

[@russd6150]

✊what a great humanitarian .

[@Ai-he1dp]

There's the rub, human nature, the human stain, corruption once again gets announced... Mr Borlaug we Salute You!...a true humanitarian.

[@GratefulOutlook]

Basic food and shelter is a human right and if we don't have enough to go around then we got to rethink how we're living.

[@coastofkonkan]

The current right wing of Indian political class projects a glorious version of history while undermining this contribution of American & human ingenuity & contribution. The Indian left surely appreciates & remembers this. Anyhow I truly feel humans will have a similar struggle with food security & global warming & will overcome it. India surely has prepared itself for it & this time it'll be part of solution providers than merely recipients. Peace & Respect from Mumbai, Maharashtra India.

[@indian9632]

Idiot no would invade or conquer a poor state.

[@tanthiennguyen9308]

I Need Color please

[@user-rd1nj4ci6j]

Human population is not the problem. The problem is greed, greed has corrupted how we nurture what God has given us. Greed world-wide, from top to bottom results in grabbing as much for self as we can-no matter how much we have, we still work even harder at increasing our gains at whatever cost. We invent more invasive/intrusive machines to glean and claw the last little bits from this earth. Our chief joy and excitement is getting rich and richer, no matter how deep we have to dig or how high we have to go, or which rivers we have to set new courses for. Of course, all this depletes the earth's life-giving properties, they're all blown away in the resultant violent winds or gushed away in flood waters. We have scraped the earth clean of her topsoils, her nutrients and instead spread man-made poisons over the remaining hard, dead crust to feed ourselves. Now we go shopping to buy "fertile soil" because our soils are dead, depleted. Yet we don't stop and start (world-wide) feeding back what we tore out, we won't stop. I see the garbage trucks carrying away "Greenwaste" from people's gardens. We are supposed to (at least) feed this Greenwaste/plant food back to the plants we pruned it from. I see neighbours spraying Roundup on the weeds in their driveways-shame, shame on us.

[@maryngeoh9007]

Cut down human population grow other than that, food shortage cannot solve

[@R_K_12201]

Science will solve it, need not to worry

[@tresajessygeorge210]

What Mr. BORLAUGH did is a GREAT temporary FIX... we have to Honor him for that ...!!! But ...even GOD HIMSELF CANNOT FIX the problems we face today ... IF HUMANS DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for themselves and BE KIND TO THE MOTHER EARTH...!!! we also MUST LEARN TO RESPECT OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS...!!! Whatever high achievements we make ... Nothing will work... UNLESS we follow the policy for FAMILY PLANNING... GLOBALLY... not just one or two nations ...!!! If it is not implemented globally it will be a disaster worse than today... because of refugee crisis, illegal immigration, illegal human, drugs and criminal trafficking... alcoholism, mental disorders, terrorism etc. etc... BEYOND CONTROL...!!! Family Planning is the only SOLUTION FOR HEALTHY and POLLUTION FREE LIVING...!!! A SMALL FAMILY HEALTHY FAMILY...!!! HEALTHY FAMULY HEALTHY SOCIETY...!!! HEALTHY SOCIETY HAPPY HUMANITY...!!! HAPPY HUMANITY A PEACEFUL WORLD...!!! Whatever we do with the use of modern science and technology... UNLESS we give PRIORITY TO PREVENT FUTURE POPULATION GROWTH AND HEALTHY MAINTAINANCE ... Humanity will be at LOST...!!! Our phylogenetics will change and will lead to UNTOWARD BEHAVIORAL CHANGES...!!! Wealth and Hordes of Grains WILL NOT SAVE THE HUMANITY from DETERIORATION...!!! We must ACT NOW to reduce the future population growth of not only just humans but also animals, birds, pets and others...!!! We have all kinds of knowledge today...!!! Let us use that for our healthy, happy and QUALITY LIFE & LIVING...!!! THANK YOU... PBS...!!! PRANAMAM TO : MR. NORMAN BORLAUGH...!!! He did that...out of the emergency... to be kind to his fellow humans all over the world...!!! He did not study to gain fame, honor and royalty... but to satisfy his good conscience...!!! Such kind of scholars we rarely find today...!!! All will be there to blame the PAST and excuse themselves... that is all we are seing today ...!!! R& D, Inventions., discussions & debates., and Writings & sentiments are WITHOUT PRACTICAL WISDOM... but for ROYALTY... and SELF ENRICHMENTS...!!! THANKS AGAIN...!!!