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Wasn't sure which forum to put this one in, if this is the wrong one go ahead and move it: China releases bioengineered rice while at the same time banning biofuel

Granted this happened last July, but I don't think anyone picked up on it here. Still is significant.

160+ views and not a single reply? Interesting.......

Its seems to me they need to invest in population control, vs grain control. If a country as large as china cant feed its people without importing a home grown staple they are OVER POPULATED. When will people learn we can not continue to over populate the earth past the point of sustainability.

Stormbringer, they have lnvested in population control, the one-child policy.

Clasic case of too little too late.

outcast wrote:160+ views and not a single reply? Interesting.......

I don’t understand the reason for these sorts of posts, or how technofixes help our predicament in any way, except for the potential to make it worse. Just say we keep the whole dog and pony show going for a few more years with one technofix and another cobbled onto the ones that came before. Then what? Technofixes haven't been working all that well for the environment lately, have they? We’ll still hit limits, only with more people, infrastructure and GDP than ever before.

nocar wrote:Stormbringer, they have lnvested in population control, the one-child policy.

The horse has already bolted, they should have instituted such a policy before things got out of control.

peripato wrote:

outcast wrote:160+ views and not a single reply? Interesting.......

I don’t understand the reason for these sorts of posts, or how technofixes help our predicament in any way, except for the potential to make it worse. Just say we keep the whole dog and pony show going for a few more years with one technofix and another cobbled onto the ones that came before. Then what? Technofixes haven't been working all that well for the environment lately, have they? We’ll still hit limits, only with more people, infrastructure and GDP than ever before.

How is providing more food for hundreds of millions of people while at the same time reducing the usage of fertilizers and pesticides a bad thing? Are people here so focused on doom death and destruction that they can't recognize a good thing when they see it?

If it wasn't for these "technofixes", you'd be drinking unsanitized water and not have indoor plumbing (among other things).

Or an "indoors" and plumbing at all. Why does everyone seem to be either a technophobe or technocrat? It's just a damn tool people, what matters is what we do with it.