ML, I understand your concerns and wish it were not so but very unfortunately, we live with far too many irrational, hate filled people in this country. Thanks for voicing your concerns.
I agree. As someone who has worked in US and international agriculture all of my life, I support this blooming of the desert in carefully designed parts of the world when there is a good possibility of an infrastructure providing additionally from desalinated water coming from the coasts. As a realistic progressive, I find that not only conservatives are infiltrated by alarmist sensationalism and disinformation part of the time. Example, alarmist nonsense regarding GM crops in general. In my 70 years, I've found that many people without any experience on farms and study in agriculture often lack a realistic view of the field. There are the dangers also of disregarding an evidence-based approach and the harm done by the Back-to-Nature movement in agriculture explained convincingly by Dick Taverne in his book, "The March of Unreason - Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism", Oxford Univ. Press.
Good heavens, John. You are the one being disingenuous.
ML, I understand your concerns and wish it were not so but very unfortunately, we live with far too many irrational, hate filled people in this country. Thanks for voicing your concerns.
I agree. As someone who has worked in US and international agriculture all of my life, I support this blooming of the desert in carefully designed parts of the world when there is a good possibility of an infrastructure providing additionally from desalinated water coming from the coasts. As a realistic progressive, I find that not only conservatives are infiltrated by alarmist sensationalism and disinformation part of the time. Example, alarmist nonsense regarding GM crops in general. In my 70 years, I've found that many people without any experience on farms and study in agriculture often lack a realistic view of the field. There are the dangers also of disregarding an evidence-based approach and the harm done by the Back-to-Nature movement in agriculture explained convincingly by Dick Taverne in his book, "The March of Unreason - Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism", Oxford Univ. Press.