India was able, over a couple of years, to double its wheat production. A this has all sorts of enormous ecological, social, political consequences. The application of pestocites hasn't done a great deal for the quality of the soil. You'restarting to see epidemic levels of pharmer suicides and of drug abuse, andrural despair.
Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
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