This microbial universe is affected, affected so severely, from the last seven decades of the Green Revolution.

微生物宇宙受到了影响，严重的影响，都是过去七十年里的绿色革命惹的祸。

If you look at the nitrogen fertilizer consumption from the beginning of the Green Revolution, it has grown nearly 30 fold.

对比一下绿色革命初期的氮肥用量，如今已经翻了将近 30 倍。

From five million metric tons at the beginning of the Green Revolution, to 150 million metric tons, what we are currently using.

从绿色革命初期的 500 万吨，涨到今天的 1.5 亿吨。

Then the green revolution, in an inspired combination of new crop breeds, fertilizers and water, made possible a huge rise in the population.

后来绿色革命兴起了，它将新品种的培育、肥料和水的使用有机地结合起来，使得人口剧增。

And what about the environmental costs of the Green Revolution?

DUBNER：那么绿色革命的环境成本呢？

Okay, so let's talk about the downsides of the Green Revolution.

DUBNER：好的， 让我们谈谈绿色革命的缺点。

In Iran we've seen the Green Revolution and the current events.

在伊朗， 我们看到了绿色革命和时事。

And this is exactly what happened with Norman and the Green Revolution.

这正是诺曼和绿色革命所发生的事情。

So how much credence should we give inequality as a downside of the Green Revolution?

那么我们应该在多大程度上相信不平等是绿色革命的一个缺点呢？

The industrialization of the agriculture is ironically known as " the green revolution" .

具有讽刺意味的是，农业产业化被称为“绿色革命”。

We want to bring about transformative change, maybe even on the scale of the Green Revolution.

我们希望带来变革，甚至可能达到绿色革命的规模。

When the twins return to Ayemenem as adults, the consequences of the Green Revolution are all around them.

当双胞胎成年后返回 Ayemenem 时，绿色革命的后果无处不在。

And then how in the 1940s, there was the green revolution where they were breeding it to increase yields and how they had dwarfed it with cobalt radiation.

然后在 1940 年代发生了绿色革命，他们培育它以提高产量，以及他们如何用钴辐射使它相形见绌。

An article had just come out that was trying to estimate the impact of the Green Revolution, and said that Borlaug and his people, if you looked carefully, had saved 600 million lives.

刚刚发表了一篇文章， 试图估计绿色革命的影响，并说博洛格和他的人民，如果你仔细观察， 已经拯救了 6 亿人的生命。

The seed improvements that took place in the '70s and '80s that were termed the green revolution — that didn't take place for African ecosystems and they have the greatest variety of crops where sorghum, chickpea, millet, cassava.

发生在 70 年代和 80 年代的种子改良被称为绿色革命——这并没有发生在非洲生态系统中， 它们拥有种类最多的作物，其中有高粱、鹰嘴豆、小米、木薯。