Richard Manning on the Green Revolution

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com presents another clip as part of the "Why Are Things Falling Apart?" series. In this clip, Richard Manning breaks down the Green Revolution for us.

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• green revolution
• Richard Manning
• peak oil
• global food production
• world hunger facts
• globalism
• starvation

[JurkoffJay]

Technology got us in this mess in the first place.  Please, no more technology.

[DemonosZXZ]

destruction of culture is the worlds most deadly disease.

[smellyfooty]

the "green" revolution is EVIL! it promises good things for the EARTH, but also promises huge sacrifices by the human population! it's a CULT!

[smellyfooty]

the earth isn't in crisis; people are in crisis. focus all our(people's) troubles onto the earth. an abstract idea is better than a real idea of how PEOPLE could get get along. we can't expect people(individuals) to get along and get together, we have to pass laws based on ideas and opinions rather than facts.

[HorenziAndTheAlps]

@JurkoffJay Or perhaps we should instead try to use technology to help get us out of it.

[duckdown1993]

@thoimis

How do you propose we use fossil fuels responsibly? How about nuclear weapons? Genetic engineering? What clear plan do you have to ensure that these technologies are used responsibly?

[duckdown1993]

@42concon

A plow is a localized technology that takes one or two people to make. A car requires thousands of people to make, an advanced division of labor and all the ecological and social problems that entails.

[42concon]

@JurkoffJay Could you please be more specific? Technology is everywhere, and it is deeply ingrained into the human way of life. Technology is inseparable and almost indistinguishable from our civilization and our culture. You could say the plow initially got us into this mess. Fast-forward 10,000 and everyone's lives rely on this complicated system of technologies. Calling for an end to new technology is both absurd and impossible.

[antoniozart]

@thoimis yes indeed. but we have come to live through our gadgetry... and nobody can be tech free without major consequences. the problem is that all our tech. relies on expoitation of fossil fuels and that is a dead end.

perhaps, technology will evolve in some other way? a teacher once said to me: if you want to follow the history of humanity, follow the building of Walls. what gets inside and what is left outside the walls. until we arrive here, with completely controlled environments.

[thoimis]

@JurkoffJay

please tell me that you realize the irony in writing "no more technology" on your computer.

technology doesn't get us into messes. the way people use technology does.

[kingxciter]

@DemonosZXZ I would say that culture in itself, especially the empire culture that runs more or less to all corners of the world today, is the disease! This planet with all its earthlings would be better off in a heartbeat if this culture would be destroyed.

[crashedsky]

@linghun No one is advocating murder. They are only suggesting that if we keep increasing our food supply, the world will no longer be able to hold our population. A balanced food supply keeps our population in balance ~shrugs~ Sounds none murderish to me.

Besides - if you do research, you can tell that our G.R. agriculture wastes nearly 50% of it's food. None of it go to starving people. And for how long the GR has been around, it has done NOTHING to slow population growth.