Re: Power and civilization

On 11/29/2012 9:16 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
>   They convinced Uganda that using fertilizer and insecticides was bad.
> That's why the crop yield is so low.  Little grows and the insects get most
> of it.  The US, on the other hand, uses insecticides in cycles so it's hard
> for the insects to develop immunity to several insecticides...what is
> superior for one is inferior for the other.  And, farmland is now adding
> topsoil with fertilizer and advanced techniques, and genetically modified
> crops.  If we could get corn to fix nitrogen better, we'd be home free.
In fact, the other major sin of the Greens (in addition to being against 
nuclear power) is the opposition to genetically modified crops. I get 
the fact that Monsanto is the poster child for evil greed, but there 
really isn't any other way to feed the number of people we now have, let 
alone will soon have, without those high-yield crops.

Regards,

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Kevin B. O'Brien
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A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw.