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by relativitypro 2066 days ago
1. Saving human lives may not be the best metric (given that even this metric is evolving in time, and I claim unknowable) 2. The green revolution benefits were several orders more significant, and will be seen as the spark that enabled climate change. Responsibly using technology is our biggest task.
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Measuring human lives saved might not be the best metric? Of course it knowable - we knew how many people died of malaria each year. Tens of millions of lives were saved.