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Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, dies

green | 13.09.2009 20:37 | Bio-technology | Ecology

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8253005.stm Story here and elsewhere about Norman Borlaug who was central to the so-called "Green Revolution" in the 1960s. It was about breeding high-yield crops (by natural cross-breeding, not genetic modification) to stave off famines caused by population explosion. I'm not really interested in celebrities like this in themselves, but I would like to know whether Indymedia readers think the Green Revolution was a good or a bad thing, in general.

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  1. Norman Borlaug — organico
  2. it was dreadful — dysophia
  3. and it missed the point — mi
  4. Know you scientists? — MDN
  5. @MDN — green