{"id":1555,"date":"2010-04-06T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:45:27","slug":"is-the-green-revolution-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/is-the-green-revolution-green\/","title":{"rendered":"is the Green Revolution green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More &#8220;news&#8221; from the Christian Science Monitor &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Tech\/2010\/0406\/How-science-could-spark-a-second-Green-Revolution\">&#8220;With world population expected to grow by nearly 50 percent to more than 9 billion people by midcentury,<\/a> farmland is going to need to be much more productive. Even today, nearly 1 out of every 6 people in the world \u2013 more than 1 billion \u2013 are going hungry, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? It begins with the premise that the answer to over-population is simply to produce more calories per person. A perfectly silly premise, but ubiquitously accepted by our media pundits. Which includes most mainstream do-gooders in the so-called &#8220;green movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And after the neo-Green Revolution figures out how to feed to hordes? Wal-Marts for everybody!<\/p>\n<p>What a future.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More &#8220;news&#8221; from the Christian Science Monitor &#8211; &#8220;With world population expected to grow by nearly 50 percent to more than 9 billion people by midcentury, farmland is going to need to be much more productive. Even today, nearly 1 out of every 6 people in the world \u2013 more than 1 billion \u2013 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}