The Green Revolution: Waging A War Against Hunger

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Anybody else watching this for online school? lol

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OurBeardedQueen -_- me my sister won’t tell me what it is about

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OurBeardedQueen -_- me

[@OutSideBoyzz]

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[@sebastianthecrab5936]

I’m putting my mark here so when i graduate school I’ll remember this day Sunday 29 nov 2020 at 10:26 PM i have a geo test tomorrow morning lets hope i pass pray for me.

[@hervaina966]

Hope it went well :')

[@sebastianthecrab5936]

@@hervaina966 it was ok

[@fariaqureshi9248]

I have a geo test tmr too haha

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[@thats_one_guy]

How was graduation

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Im doing my geography homework xD

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[@ServalKitty]

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[@CoreyStreeter]

The kids aren't biased, just misinformed. The green revolution in India is a model of western involvement in world affairs. Though it did temporarily help with hunger, it caused more problems like soil erosion, depletion of the water table, and rising rates of cancer due to the heavy use of pesticides. The real beneficiaries of this movement were companies like Monsanto, who turned massive profits from the continual purchase of fertilizers and seeds needed to supplement this method of farming

[@eyeballboob]

Ya, this seems like it took more away from the community farmer and made the huge corpsepooration factory farms. When I think about how the ecosystem works pesticides don't really fall into that system. Farmers would have their plot of crops to tend to and if there were insects and rodents there was also animals that eat those insects and rodents. But people don't like having any sort of natural ecosystem garden. They would rather spray chemicals and have no animals around at all. No birds to eat the grubs, no wolves to eat the rabbits and so on. Just big fields of pesticides and chemical fertilizers that people make to stop the whole ecosystem.

[@johnchristianbarrion6267]

thanks for this alternative point of view not mentioned in the video

[@hardyharharv]

@@johnchristianbarrion6267 likewise.

[@montrellbrown1752]

Imagine doing AP world cw....

[@lorettaconcepcion9011]

When my assignment is due at 11:59 and it’s 11:01 but the video is like 10 minutes long 😭

[@alwaysadreamer9681]

Loretta Concepcion U could’ve increased the playback speed XD

[@gingerdawson4528]

did you finish?

[@iwokeupinafornitebugatti]

@@gingerdawson4528 legends say she still working on it PAST DUE!!!!

[@indibiningingman6510]

Then you should watch 8 minutes of it and learn instead of writing a comment

[@loiddd_lolz519]

If any of yall doin a worksheet about this and would rather read, click the tree dots and then click transcript and it says it all u can either copy and paste that or just read directly from there! I know some people would rather read so if u didn't know this now u do :)

[@mice2188]

oo thx

[@cryptnymph]

3:58 look at the subtitles

[@elliot7753]

*still true*

[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

bruh, the luminati is telling you the REAL story! lol

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pensi

[@robotoak88]

Great vid I thought you might like to know that the AP human geo curriculum actually uses this video Also I caught some wall e and avatar music in there

[@ServalKitty]

Like to give a 99 cent double cheeseburger to Carl Azuz

[@samspog1540]

anyone else watching this on the last day on online school?

[@TK-by9pj]

wow online school really still telling us to watch this old video, who's here 2024?

[@embodimentofameme5624]

5:27?wait is that music from the movie?Wall-E?

[@OmegaSaturn7]

Y E S

[@geekinrob_tv7712]

This is one of the best videos I've ever watched on the topic of "the green revolution" great work!c

[@jasminesingh6323]

Even with the advancement of this technology, farmers are still suffering because of biotech companies that told farmers to buy their "special" seeds and many are in serious debt because of it. The green revolution has had many negative impacts on these farmers and is still relevant... look at the suicide rate in places like India and Pakistan. Even today, they're trying to fulfill their corporate agendas (i.e Farmer's protests in India). Norman Bourlog may have created breakthrough technology yet it's greatly been used to benefit the rich. Half the world is still starving. #IStandWithFarmers

[@eyeballboob]

Ya, I can't help but think it really just made factory farms for the rich. Farmers are told what to do and what to buy or are really not farmers but just businessmen who don't have any real touch with the land. That Burloug guy was supposed to be an ecologist? But he made it so growing crops wasn't even really part of an ecosystem...maybe just a human ecosystem. Grow the plants just for human consumption. Hunger? Most of the time this food is hoarded or wasted by the rich. A real ecosystem would have farmers tending to the plants and seeing if the insects could be food for birds and other animals or they could use the insects to fish with. And rodents will come around too. Other animals eat rodents also. That is what I call an ecosystem.

[@Praisethesunson]

@@eyeballboob Norm was a farmer who just wanted to use science to end the toil he and his family had to grow through. Which he kinda did. But he worked under the Murican imperial system. So of course Norms tech was used to further subjugate others to further enrich a handful of already wealthy ghouls.

[@megumik1019]

Wish she added statistics. We need to know how many were saved and how many suffered from the Green Revolution, so we can judge for ourselves.

[@PierreBear100]

+megumik1019 Impossible to put a number on how many were saved and how many suffered as it still has an affect today. But probably more people were hurt than helped in total. How many lives were spared but then got poisened by all the chemicals so that the food would grow? that is the question

[@Orson2u]

Profuction numbers; inputs, outputs.

[@Praisethesunson]

Suffered? The technique Norm made basically quadrupled the global supply of wheat. Nothing about that ends suffering. It just made a lot more food while humans continue to exploit and subjugate each other

[@chocoabuddha]

But that shouldn't detract from the fact that the innovation was a massive achievement. What people should be thinking about now is how can we pass laws that expedite our ability for discovering novel methods and applications? How can we better arrange agro-business such that it doesn't put small farmers' businesses in jeopardy? There are solutions to these problems, but it has to be addressed as a problem in the first place before action can be taken.

[@Praisethesunson]

The only laws passed after this entrenched control over these food innovations into the hands of a few mega conglomerates. At the direct expense of the rest of the natural world. Fun fact. This method of agricultural creates so much nitrogen runoff that it is the second most pressing environmental issue on the planet(first is climate change).

[@Nikolus]

Totally ignores the massive social and ecological changes the Green Revolution engendered. The Green Revolution project is unthinkable without the corresponding project of displacing smallholders by large commercial agriculture endeavors. The project was not to help small farmers, but to exterminate them.

[@Praisethesunson]

I mean. Norman did it because he grew up as a poor serf on a farm in America. He hated the drudgery and toil his family was subjected to. He dedicated his life to try and use science to make the toil he grew up doing something no one else would do. Which is good and inspiring in it's own way. Sadly he lived and worked under the Murican imperial system. So of course as soon as Norman made something that worked. It was highjacked and put into the hands of western mega corporations to use as a tool of imperial expansion and capital extraction.

[@dashalax2098]

brad, houcin, arron, andri.... i seee u watching this for geography

[@grandpa_stanley7813]

Okay but the background music at 5:23 from Wall-E really tops the video off.

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Doing my corona break work😁

[@goodbye4608]

CPP?

[@chocoabuddha]

Hi Nick, I'm one of the creators of the film, and am now an aspiring science researcher. When I was in high school, we decided to stick closer to the theme of "Innovation in History," and focus on describing the innovation from a more historical/scientific perspective. The reason we did not address any of the topics you mentioned were for a variety of reasons, most notably, the time constraints at hand.

[@Shellnjust]

Yeah! I'd love to be a small farmer and have to work 12+ hours a day, every day to keep food on my families table! Why would I want to get an education and, maybe, not have to work so hard. Less leisure time? Why would I want that?! Working on the family farm every day of my life, that's what everyone should want! In all honesty, there is a lot of bad stuff (environmental, social upheaval, etc.) but allowing people to get off their farmlands isn't one of them.

[@Praisethesunson]

Norman did this work specifically so people wouldn't have to toil on the land like he and his family had to.

[@littlemicu]

Totally Unreal can't believe what I'm hearing...

[@thomasmarple5863]

Is that the music from Avatar? (Blue people, not fire nation)

[@cough_sneeze]

remind me to never take an AP class again

[@loganweaver8030]

Here is your reminder

[@aw-zj5mb]

at least give the answers bro lmaoo

[@chocoabuddha]

We could have just as easily taken an economic perspective of course, which brings up a lot of tangential points to the purpose of our argument: that the innovation of genetically modified organisms opened up new ways for humans to subsist with an ever increasing population size and an unequal distribution of resources. I admit there are a lot of terrible laws, and companies (i.e. Monsanto) that have turned the innovation into more of a business that disfavors those that need GMO help the most.

[@scraps992]

After reading the comments, I'm guessing I'm the only person who's here because of genuine interest lol.

[@maddiepaddy2608]

youre not that special trust me

[@scraps992]

@@maddiepaddy2608 Never said I was...

[@zheruixuan]

He was not saying that, he was simply pointing out that the video failed to mention a very important perspective that many "small" farmers had.

[@tominrochester]

I'm a teacher and I'll be honest, I would never, ever think of using the vast majority of NHD videos in my class... But I used your's today. Very well made.

[@calebhomeier3992]

AP Geo where yall at

[@rg3ex11]

The crops weren't technically genetically modified, they were created through conventional breeding techniques.

[@Praisethesunson]

In a way that the prevailing science of the time claimed was impossible. Norman was almost fired by the FF over it.

[@carolindagar]

She also forgot to mention that it was the Rockefeller Foundation who sponsored Borlaug's research. Helloooo! They make tractors!

[@khaxnugget]

Answers for question 15?

[@MegaBrijen]

Norman Borlaugh research drove away one of the most basic problem of human race "HUNGER".

[@FlamingMooseGod]

Most famines such as the Irish Potato Famine and 1966 India famine occurred during times of record food production... the problem is not lack of food, rather lack of proper distribution infrastructures

[@eyeballboob]

Or rich people hording food and not letting poor people eat it. What I was wondering is if there was such a hunger problem then how could the population "boom"? Doesn't seem logical. And when the o so civilized white guy goes to be the "white savior" to these countries and concentrate on poverty when actually it was people just living off the land. By that I mean they used minimal supplies to build their homes, knew that other animals ate insects that would eat their food, that rodents were eaten by other animals also. I imagine old farmers who lived off the land would probably tend to their gardens and take the insects and grubs to go fishing with or catch other animals. That's the way I see it. All this over use of chemicals and ect does not really go with ecology or the ecosystem.

[@Praisethesunson]

Naw. It was the rich being cool with the poor's dying of starvation as long as it meant the rich still got money.

[@doubtfuldreamer]

Why did they not work to improve the quality of the soil?

[@douglaskelly1394]

It's a lot more complicated than we think; entire world regions have specific soil acidity and basicity that it would take God's will and work to change attributes of a type of soil the size of Siberia. We just don't have the technology to do it. And even if we did, that would have a tremendous impact on the environment. For better or for worse.

[@rosie2341]

why is the music in the background the score from atonement (2007)

[@Nikolus]

Clearly I was suggesting that the argument we have to choose between starvation or abundance is a false choice, that in fact what we're told is "abundance" is actually a form of poverty, and that conditions of starvation arise from social arrangements, not from lack of certain types of seeds. The tremendous ingenuity of classical farming techniques, lost due to homogenization and now even the impossibility of practices like seed saving and intercropping...

[@saranshtech4803]

Best video about green revolution

[@Praisethesunson]

Yeah but that's a low bar considering the importance of the subject.

[@baxtergarnett5537]

If that is not propaganda I'm not human... Citing biotechnologies and GMO before 1990, saying "according to some environmentalists there might be pollution" or "according to some hypothesis the disease can be linked with pesticides". What an euphemism... That the path followed in the past and still today. We can now see all the problems of that system (pollution, soil destruction, dramatic drop of fertility without fertilizers, water consumption,...). Alternatives have to be financed, encouraged! Dont make the same mistakes of the past. And last but not least, I'm an agronomist and I believe that environmental concerns are more than important! They mustn't make such a distinction between them because agronomists can see the damages on the field. They are more aware then anybody else of the problems.

[@Praisethesunson]

Lol capitalism doesn't care about your concerns. It just wants that $$$$

[@blindauthor4948]

I wonder if I'm the only one from my Advanced Placement that looks at the comments of the videos we're supposed do write about.... I had a thought today. My teacher doesn't like how out of date our textbook is, which it is for the subject we are. However, the videos she has us watch are old too. Soooo, confusion.

[@Smokey2461]

i have a test im probally gonna fail its currently 4/5/2021 12:59 pm

[@Smokey2461]

ill be back when i finish school\ i mean graduate

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@@Smokey2461 how did the test go?

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hi 5. geog homework.

[@Nikolus]

...(because engineered crop varieties don't permit them) have fed people under many conditions throughout history (because humans are still here, duh). If you think something like the green revolution was called for, you should have to ask yourself the corollary question: why, all of a sudden? What happened in the late 19th and early 20th century that made people unable to feed themselves? You'll find they didn't lose technologies. What did they lose? If you're not ready to critique...

[@wklentzman]

Wonder how Borlaug would feel about his "Green Revolution" today??

[@zoechrome]

This video is written like an advertisement

[@kavinpari2506]

Does it say anywhere in the video that wheat is the first green revolution crop to be experimented with? Please reply ASAP I really need to know:(

[@roninnib6635]

Idk

[@Praisethesunson]

I mean wheat is exclusively what Norm worked with. Is that what you are asking?

[@thomaspiccinin1068]

OH YEAH YEAH OH YEAH YEAH

[@gameragodzilla]

So basically, we can feed 3 billion more people AND spread Democracy? Sign me up. I'd much rather eat and live in a Westernized country than starve to death in either a totalitarian country or a 3rd world country. Generally speaking, international politics has less bearing on my life than whether or not I can eat.

[@Praisethesunson]

This is a peak Murican comment. Kudos my dude. Your oligarchs would be proud of you if they considered you human.

[@gameragodzilla]

@@Praisethesunson America is still the best.

[@Praisethesunson]

@@gameragodzilla Tell me that after you go bankrupt from medical debt. If you haven't already, you will eventually.

[@gameragodzilla]

@@Praisethesunson I won’t, like most Americans don’t. I just also don’t have to wait months for something nor does my government keep insisting in euthanasia. There’s no free healthcare, and everyone tries to save money, even governments.

[@Praisethesunson]

@@gameragodzilla Medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. Go eat a hamburger and buy crypto. Burn the world cause your masters tell you to.

[@ServalKitty]

Coach Mackey sent us heer

[@euangarbut3977]

122 dislikes from kids doing geography homework apparently

[@ELForeversj13]

Me too :X watch it just for geog hmwk...

[@louisezy87]

you wont say things like this when you are starving!

[@Nikolus]

reido720: sorry my replies were to your comment! I got an email saying someone was arguing with me. He said this: "You'd prefer all of those people were dead from starvation?" When I clicked the "reply" email link, it made me reply to you for some reason. KZbin really needs to fix how its comments work :/

[@theonlyjamiebourgeois9703]

This is a VERY rosy take on a very grave and dark subject. here on youtube look up a video called, "Richard Manning - Interview" on the 'Innuit' channel. It's the raw footage recorded for the movie "What a way to go". it opens with a segment about the green revolution.

[@davedaddy101]

Yeah I’ve heard some bad things about the green revolution but I admit I’m no expert.

[@Praisethesunson]

Lol that manning guy is just an idiot trying to scare liberals in a way that doesn't threaten the existing capitalist model. Please don't use him as a metric for the problems in the modern food system. He literally doesn't have anything useful to say.

[@lalliehayes1341]

The need to reduce runaway population growth should be considered a factor.

[@Praisethesunson]

Start with yourself if you legitimately think that too many people is an actual problem. Spoiler. Overpopulation is a lie told to you by your corporate masters so you don't look at the wasteful systems they rule over(and the wasteful lives they have).

[@abby_x6748]

I’m studying for my exam pray for me

[@michaellandry9547]

this was accomplished with conventional plant breeding, not as we say today, genetic modification or GMO

[@Nikolus]

People starve when they have their land taken away.

[@douglaskelly1394]

No, they starve because their populations grow geometrically and so rapidly that they can't keep up with their food production (hint: contraceptives).

[@Nikolus]

@@douglaskelly1394 People everywhere, throughout history, have practiced contraception. Smallholding peasants have proven remarkably resilient and capable of making economic decisions for themselves. They can also use modern contraceptives without having their land taken away.

[@xallleiii]

Where’s my AP environmental gang ?

[@elizabethe.4020]

who tryna help me with my work

[@bryanbaek1537]

hi fellow st peter students

[@CoolMariusz]

this is so cool

[@SilvanaBuilesG]

What about all the impacts on soils after the overuse of pesticides? What about the economic impacts on small farmers?. the only thing we owe to the so-called called green revolution is the distortioned food system we have now!

[@Praisethesunson]

Blame capitalism for everything you listed. The green revolution just bred really hearty wheat and rice.

[@unitlime7205]

AP world history boysss

[@OmegaSaturn7]

1:47 I like cats in general but that cat scares me

[@nyoomnyoom3808]

Cassie Star I love him and he is now to be referred as Slim Timmy

[@johnvonshepard9373]

GM is good.

[@juliarw17]

ap environmental peeps wya

[@shinokiba]

@rg3ex11 That is genetically modified, you just said the definition.

[@philipphilip5539]

I had geography hw LOL

[@mohamedfarghaly4271]

Rockefeller? sigh...

[@kngdreezy337]

its been 8 years, are you alive??

[@shayaanjasani1957]

Online learning be like

[@sophiecheng2384]

Ouch

[@yuhaoloo]

Im watching this for geog hw, but i feel this is stupid. The video only addresses the benefits about the green revolution, and doesnt even consider how it ruined the lives of the past subsistence farmers.Many farmers were urged to borrow money to buy the GM seeds, although they had initial success, they would soon go bankrupt as the cost of fertilizers is too high, and the price of the crops decreased so they earn less money.This caused them to be even poorer and lose money, or even their farm

[@Praisethesunson]

The problems you listed aren't the green revolution though. That's just capitalism.

[@reido720]

If hemp was never made illegal in the U.S, we wouldnt have any of the environmental or food issues we face today or faced any other time period new paragraph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Praisethesunson]

I don't think hemp is a food replacement for rice and wheat.

[@somethingeasy8095]

here for balogh

[@gauravkumar9529]

If population continued to grow with the same pace nothing can help, no green white blue revolution​or revolution of any other kind is going to help

[@Praisethesunson]

Actually a revolution of the proletariat would solve that issue.

[@ethanwalsh3971]

Online school anyone?

[@ellarippon1590]

Geo 😂😂

[@davidmosolf9768]

Wassup Boise

[@sourishpeswani3290]

I am doing bio😥

[@woodant7]

Yeahhh....That's all we need - more people in the world, right?! We are a very interesting kind of cancer!!

[@ladgabriel1990]

You want people to starve to death?

[@woodant7]

@@ladgabriel1990 The green revolution is not a solution is just a temporary "solution" for an increasing problem; for things that we don't want to tackle because it's a political/moral/religious issue like birth control, like sexual education, like population control as China does. So yes...let's produce more food with the (even less) amount of productive land we have, and more fishing while helping to speed up the many depleting species of fish, more bacteria factories like our CAFOs to feed the growing population, more oil digging for more cars and more clothes and plastic products that will end in the ocean. What's your proposition for the growing population, Gabriel??

[@ladgabriel1990]

@@woodant7 I'm all for educating the public more about sex and birth control. And we aren't running out of food, new methods for farming and new sorts of crops that survive better are constantly introduced. Our diets are also expanding. We do already produce enough food to feed the whole human population, but it is unequally distributed (Same with clothes). It would also be a great service if less meat was consumed, as that would allow more crops and water to go to human needs. Along with the fact that loads of land will be usable for making homes or allowing it to grow back into forest. On oil, new technologies are slowly pushing oil out of favor. While this of course causes issues (Like slave labor in cobalt mining), it causes way less issues than the many wars and destruction of climate surrounding oil. There are even entire countries that have stopped using oil entirely for energy, such as Sweden. We've even seen countries trying to ban the use of oil like Nigeria, although it is a bit too early for that now. So what are your solutions? Not everyone will accept sex ed and protection because of religious or whatever reasons.

[@plankstone]

Who else is here for AP Environmental Science? XD

[@Nikolus]

...global capitalism, you're not up to the task of weighing in on this issue.

[@Orson2u]

Capitalism raised over one billion people from $2 per day poverty in the decade from 2000. Love Ng live capitalism! For the People+

[@Praisethesunson]

@@Orson2u Lol China did that through very expensive state planning champ. Your corporate masters don't tell you that because then they couldn't take credit for it.

[@donksey]

Woo hoo

[@ethanaw1541]

hi

[@donksey]

you guys learning this too?

[@ethanaw1541]

No shit

[@donksey]

._. Ruuude

[@mogoggy8205]

hi

[@bigg741]

this is balls

[@nailal.4335]

sighs in ap enviromental science

[@PXDJACKERZZZ]

GM crops dont germinate...so in one hand yeah you are helping them and in the other your taking all the power away from the farmers by making them come to you...so in the end the western world has power of the small people again...

[@Praisethesunson]

It's almost like the stuff Norm made was done in the Murican imperial system. So as soon as Norman made something that worked it was immediately taken and used for capitalist exploitation by your corporate oligarchs.

[@Takcci]

GeoOgraPhy Hw

[@lilasianequation1813]

my fav part was 99:59:59

[@Emiiy15]

"we have won the battle against famine" UH WHEREEEEEEEEE fkn narks

[@katrinaleeholmlund]

Bias video.... Inequality and world hunger is more predominant than ever!

[@bobbyklipit509]

I hate school😂

[@shinokiba]

@RocknRollDina No it hasn't, I dare you to come up with 1 article of someone dying because of genetically engineered foods.

[@Praisethesunson]

Would the shareholder memos of PepsiCo count? Cause their products (dependant on cheap GM crops) have given a shit load of people diabetes.

[@shinokiba]

@@Praisethesunson No and that argument isn't fair. It's like if I say "3D printing never killed anyone", and you said, "No, because I can print a knife and stab someone".

[@Praisethesunson]

@@shinokiba It's not an argument. It's what is happening literally this second. Who cares what you think is fair? Reality isn't fair. Reality is there are GM foods specifically made by mega corporate conglomerates that are killing people(In PepsiCo case it's wheats that are most easy to process to hit your stomach like sugar once you eat them and of course super sweet corns for corn syrup) Which fools like you reflexively defend since you are taught to from birth by your masters. Buy some PepsiCo shares(if you can afford it) and come to next shareholders convention. You'd be amazed the kind of crazy shit their food scientists are making with GM tech. Also Please don't get diabetes. They also have a hand in the four corporations that make the insulin you will need to stay alive.

[@shinokiba]

@@Praisethesunson Then don't drink soda

[@Praisethesunson]

@@shinokiba Lol OMG PepsiCo owns a lot more than soda my poor ignorant wage slave.

[@gameragodzilla]

I'd prefer not being a farmer than starving to death, thank you very much. Maybe you'd like to ask the 30 million people who starved to death during the Great Leap Forward (many of which were no doubt farmers themselves) which solution they'd prefer. It's much easier to say how much a certain food sucks if you have an abundance of it. The rest of the world is not like your comfortable, upper-middle class life. To think that everyone else is as well off as you are is just complete ignorance.

[@ashanymarjo2369]

i regret taking ap human geography lol

[@eddiegeorgelin8399]

this video is so wrong.

[@menamagdy3785]

i know write eddie G

[@fortbumper]

anything but GMO !

[@Orson2u]

Wrong. Humans are GMOs! Sexual reproduction is GMO.

[@hopefulskeptic42]

This is 'corporate propaganda'. Do your own research into what actually happened in India. Read almost anything by Vandana Shiva.