So, I have lately had an interest in what the term "Green Revolution" means to me. I have been a little obsessed with it for the last week, and have been researching what history the term has. Generally, the Green Revolution refers to the agricultural boom in India and other places, brought forth through the adoption of American-style agribusiness techniques. This has resulted in decades of massive food growth in these countries. So, the Green Revolution was an agricultural revolution, and was in reference to the green of crop fields - India was covered in massive crops through a radical change in their agricultural methods.
To me, Green Revolution is more than agriculture, and is something I have been defining away from the old use of the term. I take it to be more than covering the planet in crops through agribusiness techniques (especially since evidence shows that these techniques could ultimately create massive groundwater depletion and eventual crop devastation). It is about all things that affect our planet's health, whether that be agriculture, energy, pollution, nuclear disarmament, etc.
The coincidence lies in the fact that I suddenly got very interested in this topic about one week ago. It was a major revelation to me, causing me to devote time and energy into knowing more about my own and others' understanding of what Green Revolution is. Then, like a cosmic gathering of consciousness, I hear a program on NPR about the Green Revolution (the one from the 1960's), which discussed all of the things I had just been learning about. It's just very eerie, how these kinds of things keep happening to me - it's like deja vu, but it feels bigger than that.
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