how green was the green revolution.?

Just this morning I read about weeds that were refusing to lie down and disappear, refusing to be "Rounded Up".They were developing an immunity to that noxious weed killer.  The answer to the problem was  the use of even more powerful chemical killers. The infamous  Agent Orange was offered as an unbelievable example.  That it had poisoned the soil in Vietnam and deformed generations of people was simply forgotten.  

Even as industria lAgriculture's  promise to feed the 21st century  millions is being shown to be a dangerous farce  the saner nature friendly approaches to growing food are being buried by the very companies that are in fact destroying  the chance of actually  feeding tthose millions without destroying the planet. as quickly as the "Green Revolution" is destroying the  Punjab - the 'land of the five rivers' that watered  and seeded one of the oldest civilizations in the world. 


 If you look at the history of environmental destruction, you’ll often see examples where communities that had managed resources for a very long time were transformed either into the agents of their own destruction through the introduction of private property, or the resources that they depended on were destroyed by corporate interests.

You would be entirely forgiven for not having heard about the I-A-A-S-T-D – the International Agricultural Assessment on Knowledge Science and Technology for Development – because no one’s heard of it. And that’s sad because it was sponsored by the World Bank, the US government, and a range of international agencies and governments. Many of the world’s leading scientists and agronomists and social scientists bent their minds asking: “So how are we going to feed the world in the twenty-first century?” And the answer they came up with was less industrial agriculture, more agro-ecological systems, more urban and peri-urban farming. We need agriculture that’s light on fossil fuel and water and much more regional and seasonal. We need much better distribution mechanisms in terms of human rights and much less in terms of free market.

It’s not surprising that the report was buried by the governments that paid for it. It wasn’t a conclusion they particularly wanted to hear.

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