Introduction

We are living throughn innovation famine, not an innovation feast. One of the reasons for this is the power of the environmental movement to oppose new technologies which are often good for the environment. I detail the case of genetically modified organisms, where you make a plant insect resistant and have the capacity to wean agriculture off chemical pesticides. It's very hard to see how europe now changes its mind and adopts this new technology. The end point must be that the more we innovate, the fewer resources we need, the less land we need. If we were to speed up the accumulation f application of knowledge through innovation, we would be able to solve all humanity's problems....