http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/14/no...tion-opinions-contributors-ronald-bailey.html Without dwarf wheat, much of humanity would have starved and the rest would have been plunged into a food war.
Okay, you're paying for my drycleaning. That was genius. I miss him posting on O-Live and the rest of the board making short joke after short joke.
to be fair- the green revolution has expedited a level of anomie (disintegration) in third world societies. i was having a conversation a few years ago with this retired professor who was very cynical about the benedictions of the "green revolution"- he believes the green revolution eviscerated a "way of life" too quickly. his argument wasnt convincing but i do remember him saying it destroyed subsistence farming with surplus farming and in the process destroyed the traditional way of life. he also went on to repudiate the west for its subsidies and tariffs to protect its own at the expense of the south. also, he viewed western food aid as an unintentional bludgeoning of domestic agriculture in these traditional societies.
worlds hungry reaches 1 billion!!! http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=21748426
Nothing against your professor, but I'm pretty sure all those people would give up their "traditional way of life" to not starve.
he wasnt a prof of mine, he was a retired prof who was speaking at a religious event that i kinda stumbled across. he made those comments in his speech so i approached him after the event to follow up. the green revolution has without doubt increased crop yields and i dont think anyone can be against that. now if we can only curb global warming- we might be able to avert the increased regularity of droughts thats putting millions of farmers in the south out of work.
