Many reasons to be skeptical of GMO are concordant with reasons to be concerned about climate change/environmentalism, though.
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The industrialists also assured us we had nothing to worry about, environmentally. I don't buy the evidence-of-absence-of-risk 'science'.
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There are a number of reasons to be concerned about GM, yes, but the environmental groups tend to unhelpfully blend them together.
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Unhelpful in what sense? It's an environmental issue in the same way as monocultures, but with more severe ramifications.
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My personal concern is throwing a group of technologies under the bus because we don't like who's developing them.
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I think we *may* need GM tech to feed everyone, especially in some of the scarier global warming scenarios.
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We -may-, but the risk of global starvation is also there - even in the absence of severe climate scenarios.
We don't understand the tech.
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We don't fully understand a huge number of things, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're not useful.
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Deploying transformative tech we don't understand at this scale is how we created climate change in the first place, if indeed we did.
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I'm not saying don't use it; I'm saying reckless deployment can end civilization. It may yet prove to be a bigger mistake than oil/gas.