Message-ID: <32DC8EA4.39F8@mind.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 08:00:36 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@MIND.NET> Subject: Re: Re[4]: What kind of technology do WE need? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
mailto:GOOZNER.ALAN@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV wrote:> The green revolution has proven that the productivity of
> agriculture is not resource limited.
Up until now. To utilize a metaphor from the book "Ishmael," to suggest that the green revolution has "proven that the productivity of agriculture is not limited" is like pushing car of a cliff and then proclaiming "see, I told you cars could fly," yes, you are flying...momentarily.
> Wouldn't it be kinder to adapt the miracle of modern
> agriculture in a development situation rather than continue
> to enslave these people with primitive methods?
Kinder to who? Do we not "enslave" people to produce tractors, fertilizer, etc.? Please define "primitive methods."
B. Diamond