The Americas has been a relatively stable continent. The last truly new border we have is Panama in 1903.
Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.
During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.
When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.
We have to get serious about living within our means.
It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.
Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
