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Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak, Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
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About this Seminar:
Pamela Ronald is the head of a plant genetics lab at UC Davis; Raoul Adamchak teaches organic farming there. They're married (with kids), and they coauthored Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food.
In the book they wrote: "To meet the appetites of the world's population without drastically hurting the environment requires a visionary new approach: combining genetic engineering and organic farming. Genetic engineering can be used to develop seeds with enhanced resistance to pests and pathogens; organic farming can manage the overall spectrum of pests more effectively."
Agriculture has been a revolutionary biological science for 10,000 years, husbanding soil, tweaking the genes of the food crops. This is the next stage.
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
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LocationThe Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center
1 Marina Blvd.
San Francisco, CA 94123
United States
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