Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

ISBN-13: 9781472946973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str.

Mark Lynas

Opis

"[This book] provides an explanation of the research that has enabled this technology-something which led to countless misconceptions- about a field that could provide perhaps the only solution to a planet with a population of ten billion people"--Publisher's description.

Recenzje

In short, Mark Lynas is a saint. Dominic Lawson Sunday Times 20180318

Spis treści

GMO, GM or GE? Chapter 1: UK Direct Action: How we Stopped the GMO JuggernautChapter 2: Seeds of Science: How I Changed my MindChapter 3: The Inventors of Genetic Engineering Chapter 4: A True History of MonsantoChapter 5: Suicide Seeds? Farmers and GMOs from Canada to BangladeshChapter 6: Africa: Let Them Eat Organic Baby CornChapter 7: The Rise and Rise of the Anti-GMO Movement Chapter 8: What Anti-GMO Activists Got RightChapter 9: How Environmentalists Think Chapter 10: Twenty Years of Failure NotesAcknowledgementsIndex

O autorze

Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011. He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. He is research lead at the Alliance for Science at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an affiliate of Cornell University, and has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on vaccines, climate and GMOs. He is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet, launched in 2021 and now active in 12 countries.