Thursday, November 09, 2006

Agricultural Hypocrisy in Climate Change Debate

In another hot air release from the climate change conference in Nairobi, warnings of agricultural disaster due to increased drought conditions and water shortages from glacial melt, only hurting the poor in poor countries. Of course, anything we do now won't affect the climate for 30 to 50 years, meanwhile, drought conditions have been affecting African nations since the 1970's and that drought-resistant crops have been refused by aid organisations because they were genetically modified. True to form, the UN press release does not mention that the drop in agricultural aid over the past few years comes from UN pressure not to accept crops and agricultural technology from the United States. Monetary values are only given, I can assume, because it's easier to skim money than GM wheat.

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