One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.