We do at the moment, but GM tech may be necessary to cope with a growing population in a changing climate.
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What makes you think population will keep growing if Asia is hit by drought? Death toll would likely exceed 2 billion.
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But it's a very high-risk line of thinking, resting once again on the assumption that we know exactly where we're headed.
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It's great to talk about the potential problems of GM tech, but let's not demonise the concept.
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"Green" groups already did this with nuclear power and I think the best evidence is that had a huge cost.
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Sure, we should be wary, this is big stuff. But we need to inform not mislead and view the various issues independently.
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If we had all embraced this tech, the ramifications might scale faster than the number of disasters. Who knows the systemic effects?
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Nuclear development more or less ground to a halt and is only recently picking up because we have no choice.
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We don't? Other forms of power are facing regulatory shutdown despite lower/virtually no risk by comparison.
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MWh/deaths nuclear is way ahead of the competition, is it not? Maybe gas can compete.