To the extent that the global society succeeds in reducing emissions and the threat of climate change, we can then return our focus to our normal challenge of feeding the approximately 10 billion people that we re going to have in the future without environmental degradation. So we have enough on our plate even without climate change. While some people in the farm industry are concerned that responding to the Kyoto accords will impose restrictions on energy use in agriculture, I think that appropriate responses may be found that both improve energy efficiency and are cost-effective. Climate change is not unmitigated gloom and doom. It is very serious, but it also is an opportunity for enhancing environmental sustainability and global cooperation.
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