NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Bt Cotton, Mark Lynas, Stewart Brand
20 Jun 2013
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Genetics 4: genetically modified organisms, risk & uncertainty. Only being able to grow one type of crop- easier to predict what kind of crop you have has an esthetic effect to it, more efficient less labour intensive etc. Problem: diseases and other predators love it . Opposite of polycultures"- growing a few different kinds of crops [iroquois. A lot of genetic engineering is used to increase yields, using monocultures. Factory farming/ monocultures not really discuss advocates of gmos. Just because something is natural, it doesn"t necessarily mean its good". Somebody who possess a certain quality, or skill can belong to a certain group. If you are talking about risk its quantifiable (it can happen to you, and will most likely happen in the future) Uncertainty is unquantifiable (if you are in opposition about something, you can file a complaint about it) Most interesting recent change is on part of some greens to.
