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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That's very frequently not what they play on, though - they know people won't listen, so they hint around health and safety.
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That's also an issue. Mind you, I think most environmentalist orgs are trash, but the health concerns are very real.
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Sure, we should be careful, but there's a huge amount of evidence that the crops in use are safe.
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This sort of evidence is pointless. It takes one single reproducible instance of harm to disprove it. Health is longitudinal, GMOs young.
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And yet that one case has yet to happen..? That's all the proof we have of the safety of at least most things, isn't it?
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Yeah, except those things are centuries old. It's taken centuries for climate change to manifest visibly. So what?
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This exact same line of reasoning is why the world runs on fossil fuels. Look where it got us.
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We have choice between something that we know causes a lot of harm and something that, best evidence suggests, causes less harm.