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You ever read Paul Ehrlich's book? -The Population Bomb?
-Yeah. He wrote it in 1 968. Ehrlich said that it was a fantasy
that lndia would ever feed itself. Then Norman Borlaug comes along. The problem was that wheat is
top-heavy. It was falling over on itself... ...and it took up too much space. The dwarf wheat. Guys, it was
an agricultural revolution... ...that was credited
with saving 1 billion lives
-Yeah. He wrote it in 1 968. Ehrlich said that it was a fantasy
that lndia would ever feed itself. Then Norman Borlaug comes along. The problem was that wheat is
top-heavy. It was falling over on itself... ...and it took up too much space. The dwarf wheat. Guys, it was
an agricultural revolution... ...that was credited
with saving 1 billion lives
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You ever read Paul Ehrlich's book?
00:00:03.416 --> 00:00:07.576
-The Population Bomb?
-Yeah. He wrote it in 1 968.
00:00:07.666 --> 00:00:11.494
Ehrlich said that it was a fantasy
that lndia would ever feed itself.
00:00:11.791 --> 00:00:14.999
Then Norman Borlaug comes along.
00:00:14.375 --> 00:00:18.125
The problem was that wheat is
top-heavy. It was falling over on itself...
00:00:18.125 --> 00:00:20.873
...and it took up too much space.
00:00:21.166 --> 00:00:22.328
The dwarf wheat.
00:00:22.625 --> 00:00:25.999
Guys, it was
an agricultural revolution...
00:00:25.375 --> 00:00:29.451
...that was credited
with saving 1 billion lives.
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Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.
