For almost a century, we mankind live in an environment with sufficient food to sustain after Green revolution, a revolution of agriculture from the introduction of new techniques in planting crops, and even new grain varieties with higher harvest compared to normal varieties.
As the consequence of the Green revolution, people from countries which have struggled from famine for a long time could have lead lives with plenty of food. The Green revolution not only has brought scientific planting techniques, new grain varieties for farmers, but also wealth.
Thanks god for the revolution. It has brought new lives for many people, and it also ended many people's lives.
In India, getting clean water to drink is almost impossible for people living in slums. They can only get contaminated water from rivers polluted by pesticide and chemical fertilizers. As a result, thousands of people die from cancer due to the poisonous water.
Now,shall we appreciate for the Green revolution?
According to records by World Food Organization( WFO), the grain stockpiles in the world has been the lowest lately. We are now not only facing food shortage, but food crisis.
We are now only proving Malthusian's theory. The theory that explained the relation between the increase of food and population.
The conclusion from the theory: the food production can never catch up the increase of population!
This is because whenever the food production increases, human will increase their population due to the food security. They know there will be enough food to feed them. Therefore, when the Green revolution increased food production, the number of population has become skyrocketing.
People will have to conquer the environment to get more lands for farming, living.
People even wish for second Green revolution, with the confidence in genetic engineering, they believe that they can produce new grain varieties with more resistance to weather and diseases.
Saved from the food crisis or keep playing around the Malthusian's trap?
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