Widely considered a villain in environmentalist and leftist circles.
They admit he increased crop yields. But.
Artificial fertilizer destroys soils.
Irrigation and pesticides destroy natural environments.
The methods are too expensive for most farmers in poor countries. They can’t compete.
Genetic modification of food crops is evil.
The Green Revolution is a plot to enslave indigenous peoples to Big Business.
Mechanization of farming increases energy input into food and causes Global Warming.
Native cultures are destroyed when they rise above subsistence levels.
Some of these criticisms are true, at least partially.
“Native cultures are destroyed when they rise above subsistence levels.”
Tripe like this is written by “anthropologists” who raise children like Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
My advice to them is try living at “subsistence levels” for three to five years with no safety net or escape route when they have a poor crop.
“The methods are too expensive for most farmers in poor countries. They can’t compete.”
Have you priced “organic foods” lately? Or Japanese “traditional indigenous” rice. Besides, “most farmers” in poor countries are selling to neighbors. The price of their export crops is most affected by their government’s “central planning”, at least in Africa.
BTW, I’ve seen a lot of people survive because of Jim Rowland’s work in the 1970’s & 80’s developing or improving drought resistant crops in the Karamoja region of NE Uganda.
The Leftists are correct! Ban all modern farming in the Third and Turd World. Let ‘em starve.
Why?
‘Cause the difference between a First World nation and a Third or Turd World nation is that if we rebuild a First World nation such as we did after WW II, those people don’t act out their “Inner Savage” on our embassies.
Sorry, Leftists, but history is clear - the only good Third Worlder is a dead one.
Ditto (but more so) for Turd Worlders.