There Are Probably Already Too Many People

In Many Places In The Developed World, We Eat Or Waste Probably Twice As Many Food Calories As We Really Need. We're Wasteful Of Food. We Ship All Over The World. We're Now Realizing That Generating The Energy To Ship The Food Around The World Is Also Ruining Our Climate.

New Molecular Methods That Add Or Modify Genes Can Protect Plants From Diseases And Pests And Improve Crops In Ways That Are Both More Environmentally Benign And Beyond The Capability Of Older Methods.

The Influence Of A Science Adviser Is Only As Good As Ears Open To That Science Advice.

We've Gotten So Good At Growing Food That We've Gone, In A Few Generations, From Nearly Half Of Americans Living On Farms To 2 Percent. We No Longer Think About How The Wonderful Things In The Grocery Store Got There, And We'd Like To Go Back To What We Think Is A More Natural Way.

For Me Science Is Not Different From Art, Except In The One Small, Crucial Detail That Experiments Speak Their Own Truths, Not Ours.