Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
11:06 - Remember when science was on our side?
http://www.highyieldconservation.org/
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Man, this Patrick Moore fellow must be quite the thorn in Greenpeace's side.
First he came out in support of nuclear power (in direct opposition to Greenpeace's current stance); now he's arguing in favor of genetically modified food, to the effect that a GM-free world (and especially an all-organic one) would only be able to support a fraction of the earth's current population.
I for one like my corn on the cob, nectarines, tomatoes, and grain products, none of which would exist without genetic engineering of the old or the new-fangled varieties. And on a related note I especially love how all those people burning candles during Earth Hour a little while ago so neatly sabotaged all the decades of advances in efficiency and cleanliness in the power generation technologies we have come to depend on to fulfill our society-scale needs, transporting us instantly and gleefully back to the age when we didn't even worry about how much we were polluting things simply because we couldn't afford such a luxury.
Man, getting old must suck for idealists.
Via Lance.
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