The Green Revolution: Waging A War Against Hunger

[duckdown1993]

How is reducing hunger a green issue? Reducing hunger is what caused the population explosion and threatens ecological collapse. I don't think anyone who supports rapid population growth can honestly call themselves a green revolutionary.

[streetercorey]

The kids aren't biased, just misinformed.

The green revolution in India is a model of western involvement in world affairs. Though it did temporarily help with hunger, it caused more problems like soil erosion, depletion of the water table, and rising rates of cancer due to the heavy use of pesticides.

The real beneficiaries of this movement were companies like Monsanto, who turned massive profits from the continual purchase of fertilizers and seeds needed to supplement this method of farming

[katrinaleeholmlund]

Bias video.... Inequality and world hunger is more predominant than ever!

[MegaBrijen]

Norman Borlaugh research drove away one of the most basic problem of human race "HUNGER".

[carolindagar]

She also forgot to mention that it was the Rockefeller Foundation who sponsored Borlaug's research. Helloooo! They make tractors!

[Nikolus]

Totally ignores the massive social and ecological changes the Green Revolution engendered. The Green Revolution project is unthinkable without the corresponding project of displacing smallholders by large commercial agriculture endeavors. The project was not to help small farmers, but to exterminate them.

[Zelinskas9]

Haha. I love how the narrator pretty much politely says shut up smelly hippies, we have starving people to feed.

[Teh0wnageVidz]

I FUCKING KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO!!!!

GROW FUCKING CANNABIS!!!!!

IT LEAVES THE SOIL BETTER THAN IT WAS

THE SEEDS ARE LIKE THE BEST THING FOR u

AND IT HAS 25000 MORE USES!!!!

[caitlinlouden]

AMAZING video! Where did you find those videos of Norman?

[rg3ex11]

The crops weren't technically genetically modified, they were created through conventional breeding techniques.

[shinokiba]

@rg3ex11 That is genetically modified, you just said the definition.

[doubtfuldreamer]

Why did they not work to improve the quality of the soil?

[RocknRollDina]

genetically engineered foods have caused a new form of problems....health diseases!!!!

[linghun]

@RocknRollDina The worst diseases are hunger and environmental misanthropy. Norman Burlaug was one of the greatest human beings to ever live.

[linghun]

@RocknRollDina No, since genetically modified foods were introduced and since the Green Revolution, human health improved and life expectancy, child mortality, nutrition have improved dramatically. Whatever problems the GR brought are far outweighed by its advantages. Billions of lives were saved.

[duckdown1993]

@linghun

Thats part of the problem though.  Population explosions cause ecological problems.

[shinokiba]

@RocknRollDina No it hasn't, I dare you to come up with 1 article of someone dying because of genetically engineered foods.