Reply #3: Two cavemen are looking at a river. One says to the other, "You'll never build a freeway here!" [View All]

[txlibdem]

The moral of the story: old ideas can never solve new problems, even old ideas amped up on steroids and meth (which is what I call the Green Revolution).

The green revolution didn't solve a single problem of the METHODS of farming, it just put them all on steroids: more water, more and bigger machines, more fertilizer, more pesticides, more herbicides. How many wrongs do you think will make this right???

Don't get me wrong. Apparently, steroids can increase your performance a lot... but it's only a matter of time till the side effects start making things worse.

We will never succeed in feeding 9 billion people with old thinking, nor by cutting down the rain forests we all depend upon. In order to feed 9 billion people (from the around 7 billion today) we need breakthrough thinking, radically different methods, and much, much more energy and water efficiency. We are already seeing the signs of fresh water scarcity.

Since current modern method take up 70 percent of the fresh water, that does not leave much for the rising populations, industry, etc.