He believes in global warming, and is worried about climate change today. When asked at a meeting what people should plan to do in the future when things got hotter, he sardonically said "move to Canada", because he figures no matter what we do the climate will change. My problem is that the problem is pollution, but the same ones who oppose global warming also oppose chemicals and GM crops.
China has a huge pollution problem, but what if the alternative is the massive famines in the past? Yet you might read how China "lowered their carbon output"...the naive think this was from lowering smoke from factories, but it wasn't: it was from changing how they grow rice.
So one quarter or so of China's carbon output is from decaying weeds producing methane in rice paddies. They lowered their carbon output by using "dry" preparation of rice fields. You use herbicides, only one irrigation to get rid of weeds and then use hybrid or GM rice that grows with less water. Voila, less rotting weeds, less carbon, and more rice.
a report on this here.
PDF here
Interesting!
Thanks!
Thank you for that rice in China info.