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Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Limits of Innovation

Ingo Potrycus 20 years ago said, I can put vitamin A precursor genes in rice and keep everything else the same. And he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, but Greenpeace set out to stop him. So that is not a case where innovation has been stymied by physical limits. It's a case where we have deliberately allowed certain sections of society to force us to turn back on life saving beneficial innovations.

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