On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Anthony D'Costa <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings from Shanghai. The critique of GR from a class point of > view was Keith Griffin, among others. I am inviting the daughter of > India's GR economist Dr. Swaminathan in May for a lecture in > Copenhagen, who also does village studies but she is not enamored by > GR rather the effects of liberalization on rural India. > > But the question does remain how to feed 1+ billion people without > increasing productivity.
The answer is: it is impossible to sustainable feed 1+ billion people. And given access to education, health and adequate nutrition, the population would not be so large in the first place. The Green Revolution is an industrial solution to the problem overpopulation resulting from mass poverty that was created by industrialization in the first place. -raghu. -- "Due to budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
