http://civileats.com/2009/09/15/father-of-the-green-revolution-dies-evaluating-his-legacy/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:19:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://civileats.com/2009/09/15/father-of-the-green-revolution-dies-evaluating-his-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-4066 Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Global Harvest Initiative Seeks to Feed People Bolster Big Ag Profits Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:18 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5020#comment-4066 [...] our global hunger woes. In fact, more people are food insecure today than they were when Borlaug (who died just over a week ago) took up the hunger gauntlet, and the argument could be made that it was his work was a short term [...] [...] our global hunger woes. In fact, more people are food insecure today than they were when Borlaug (who died just over a week ago) took up the hunger gauntlet, and the argument could be made that it was his work was a short term [...]

]]> http://civileats.com/2009/09/15/father-of-the-green-revolution-dies-evaluating-his-legacy/comment-page-1/#comment-4047 Bill McCann Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:20:06 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=5020#comment-4047 Thanks for another fine article. It is great to see that it is just not us old folks who read the obits. Your points about the green revolution are hard to fault, but I would like to see just a bit of charity directed towards the man responsible for starting the mess that it became. He was a brilliant geneticist (although he had no business teaching people to grow wheat in the tropics), and I don't think that he intended for his inventions to end up totally in the service of agribusness. There are all kinds of brilliant folks out there right now working at getting us out of our enviornmental woes...let's hope that we truely are making wise choices as we forge ahead with some of these new ideas. Thanks for another fine article. It is great to see that it is just not us old folks who read the obits. Your points about the green revolution are hard to fault, but I would like to see just a bit of charity directed towards the man responsible for starting the mess that it became. He was a brilliant geneticist (although he had no business teaching people to grow wheat in the tropics), and I don’t think that he intended for his inventions to end up totally in the service of agribusness. There are all kinds of brilliant folks out there right now working at getting us out of our enviornmental woes…let’s hope that we truely are making wise choices as we forge ahead with some of these new ideas.

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