Curtin argues that the so-called green revolution destroys the environment and poses a threat to peace. Truman's developmentalist vision for the "third world" is an early instance of the green revolution, and its impact on the environment may be contrasted with that of the ideal of village swaraj espoused by Gandhi.
    The green revolution brings "first-world" agricultural practices to the "third world." Those who introduce the green revolution, however, dominate and make war on the environment. Curtin refers to the practices associated with the green revolution as developmentalism and warism.
    Among the "warist" practices are the clear-cutting of the land, single crops rather than rotating crops, the elimination of mixed animal and vegetable farming, an excessive demand for water, the use of chemical fertilizers, a dependency on hybrid seed, and the industrialization of farming. Large amounts of cash are needed for this type of farming, and loans are made available to farmers. In the "underdeveloped" third world, these loans may be given through the World Bank. The process is "top down"--with the wealthy few at the top reaping profits from the labor of the many at the bottom.
    The communitarian ideal of village swaraj as proposed by Gandhi treats the land in a more cooperative, sustainable way than the farming that accompanies the green revolution. The preservation of trees on some lands helps control flooding. Crop rotation contributes to the control of insects by removing their food supply. Mixed animal and vegetable farming provides renewable organic materials in place of chemical fertilizers. Since hybrid seeds are largely infertile, farmers become completely dependent on corporate suppliers of  seeds for their crops. The use of animals rather than mechanized farming keeps down cash costs.
    Women grow the vast majority of the food in third world countries, and traditionally women have used organic, cooperative methods of farming. Women's agriculture is pacificist and cooperative rather than aggressive and competitive in its approach to nature. "Treatment of the land reveals the moral self." The green revolution threatens women's agriculture in the third world.
    The green revolution seeks to impose the practice of Western industrialized farming on the entire world. Its attitude may be described as one of "arrogant perception." Women's agriculture is local and has a close relationship with a specific place.
    The green revolution sought to defeat communism by destroying the world's peasant class. Reactions against this have emerged in the Liberation Theology in Central America and Dalit Theology in India. In both one finds a pacificism that is a form of resistance to threats to communities and environments.