How to Use green revolution in a Sentence

green revolution

noun

• But in the long term, perhaps Covid-19 will be the kick in the pants that the world needs to escalate the green revolution and save us from ourselves.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
• The stakes have never been higher for the next green revolution.
  — The Intersection, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2011
• The green revolution of the 1960s exported this paradigm to ex-colonial countries in South and Southeast Asia.
  — Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2021
• The co-founder of a rival cryptocurrency is pushing for a green revolution in mining.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
• Dude, the world is amidst a new green revolution everywhere... except Europe.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2011
• The high-yielding crop varieties that were bred during the first green revolution helped prevent food shortages in the 1960s by increasing the proportion of grain-to-plant biomass.
  — Amanda Cavanagh, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2019
• Demand for some metals like neodymium and indium could grow by more than a dozen times by 2050, and there simply might not be enough supply to power the green revolution.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
• Ellinghorst agrees that sensibly used, these vehicles can play a big part in bolstering the green revolution.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• What initiated your interest in the green revolution and what excites you most about this new green future?
  — Chelsea Davis, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• These wretched money managers are trying to profit off the green revolution without the all-in commitment.
  — Andy Martin, National Review, 10 Sep. 2021
• But now the Australian government wants to break the world’s dependence on China for processing the minerals driving the green revolution.
  — Natasha Frost Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 23 May 2023
• Get our daily newsletter This hardly threatens famine—something the green revolution abolished decades ago by boosting wheat and rice yields.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
• Shipping and freight have also finally embraced the green revolution.
  — John Rossant, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• On the one hand, a new green revolution is genuinely underway, with trillions of dollars being spent to reduce planet-warming emissions.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• The green revolution is handing additional leverage to countries where metals like copper and nickel are being dug up.
  — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• An accurate accounting of the environmental footprint of the rare-earth mining needed for the green revolution would also be welcome.
  — WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• But a green revolution promises a much higher level of security.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2021
• The green revolution soon improved food security, and a mixture of economic development and access to education and family planning brought down birth rates in much of the world.
  — Mara Hvistendahl, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2016
• But the green revolution doesn’t mean China is totally abandoning fossil fuels.
  — Robert Horn, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2019
• The final installment in this IPCC series lands at a moment when humanity is reaching a crossroads: business as usual, or accelerating the green revolution.
  — WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
• The green revolution that transformed modern agriculture has generally increased its scale.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2018
• Instead, a green revolution—the widespread adoption of fertilizers, mechanization, and high-yield crops—transformed agriculture.
  — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Brussels’ announcement marks the latest step in a rapidly accelerating green revolution.
  — Simone Tagliapietra, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2021
• The Norwegian fertilizer company has been lauded for seeding a green revolution in Tanzania.
  — Fortune, 7 Sep. 2017
• Over time, India’s green revolution ended up inadvertently creating its own problems, Mr. Gulati points out.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Since the green revolution of the mid-20th century, crop improvement has mostly focused on manipulating genes through breeding or genetic modification.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
• According to analysis by various experts, HYV seeds, which entered Indian fields during the green revolution, are less resistant to droughts and floods and need efficient management of water, chemical fertilisers, insecticides, and pesticides.
  — Basudev Mahapatra, Quartz India, 11 Feb. 2020
• The artificial sequestering of nitrogen into fertilizer sparked a green revolution that enabled the human population to double.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024