ovdje - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

jednom kada je Indija ušla u začarani krug industrijske poljoprivrede, koji
s vremenom postaje sve opakiji, sve je teže pronaći izlaz.
GREEN REVOLUTION IN INDIA:
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the
people.” (H. Kissinger) Even though this statement can hardly be more
straightforward, only mass starvation as the only indisputable engine to
drive the mass revolution can highlight its gravity. But is it possible for the
mass starvation to happen? As opposed to masses absorbed in games and
circuses, the ruling class knows well that even a couple of bread crumbs
have to be provided. However, can infertile and degrading agricultural areas,
as well as marginal areas originally unsuitable for agriculture but now
covered in different crops, feed people and for how long? Today we are
facing irrefutable evidence that industrial agriculture is completely unsustainable,
but still its disadvantages are being “corrected” through heavier
technological interventions in the environment, such as genetic engineering.
This has led to serious threats to basic human needs such as availability
of food and water. But how all of this went unnoticed?
By referring to the American geopolitical strategy of “Green revolution”
programme in India, started in 1960s, I will try to show enfolding of
new colonization and enslavement of the Third World through close cooperation
of the state, corporations, philanthropic private foundations and
economy, politics, and technology. The British Empire managed to weaken
Indian peasant and implement Western ideas of progress in the minds of
newly created middle classes and intellectuals, and the growing American
Empire only continued down the path of colonization disguised as progress
and prosperity. Unfortunately, once India entered the vicious circle of industrial
agriculture, it is getting harder to get out.
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