A recent editorial at Investors Business Daily discusses the Left’s abandonment of respect for science with regard to GMO foods and crops. This is nothing new, but even in “old news,” we sometimes find new information.
Of particular interest is the mention of a study that indicated GMO crops could reduce methane emissions. Methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so we might expect that those who advocate for remediating action to combat global warming would embrace technologies that reduce methane emissions. We already know that many global warming purists reject nuclear power, the ultimate non-carbon energy source, so we already know that in the grievance hierarchy, nuclear power is a greater no-no than carbon energy.
As the editorial notes, we now know that GMOs are a bigger bugbear to the enviro crowd than global warming is. So, we can add some more information to our grievance rankings. If we want to speculate a bit, we might surmise that the enviros’ concerns for the greater good are trumped by their selfish fears. Global warming is primarily projected to do harm to future generations, the occasional hysterical nonsense aside. Opposition to GMOs, on the other hand, seems rooted in personal phobias born out of either ignorance or the subordination of science to “frankenfood” paranoia.
Many millions of lives have been saved and improved by GMO crops, and many millions more could be saved through GMO crops like golden rice. It is beyond tragic that those lives are deemed sacrificial by the anti-science enviros and other assorted ignoramuses. Worse, some of these people actually don’t mind all that death, given their equally nonsensical beliefs regarding overpopulation and Malthusian doomsaying. After all, what’s a few million black, brown, and yellow deaths every year in comparison to their personal phobias?
This latest bit is yet more evidence that many greens and enviros don’t care about their fellow humans. I suppose we can reconcile their prioritizing anti-GMO over global warming by surmising that they figure the body count resulting from the former means fewer carbon emitters in the future. Horrific, but not unprecedented. As Josef Stalin observed:
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.
When those millions are on the other side of the world, their deaths are barely a footnote.
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