I oppose their use to stall or reverse the development necessary to encourage innovation and development that both protects and enhances human life. The future is quite thoroughly sustainable. Despite a population estimated to be six billion, the earth has proven capable of feeding every one of us. Yes, there is famine in some parts of the world, but there will be no famine if the Greens drop their opposition to genetically modified seeds to produce crops even under the harshest of conditions. The former Soviet Union, Russia, also stares famine in the face.
Food is rationed in Cuba.
So much for the notion of a people s paradise. Both Stalin and Mao presided over mass starvation. Here s what Joel Kovel of the Green Party has to say. Paul Dumouchelle, the author of this nonsense, seems to have forgotten that life expectancy in America is now the highest it has ever been in the history of the nation. This is the direct result of the application of science to all aspects of our lives, whether it involved the development of pesticides that protect against Nature s insect and rodent pests that spread disease or the agricultural techniques yielding larger quantities of food crops than ever before.