Natural Revolution Empowering Natural Living
This award winning documentary film explores the growing global threat of genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. The film features renowned geneticist and host of PBS’ The Nature of Things David Suzuki, who explores the unknown and possibly disastrous consequences of improperly tested GE methods.
Many scientists and activists are interviewed in the film, which serves as an effective and succinct tool for understanding the complex issue of GE trees. The film includes the testimony of many experts on the subject and serves as a valuable tool to inform students and those interested in environmental issues.
The revolution that is necessary now is not in progressing bio technology, but rather, its strict curtailment, and if need be, the dismantling of its capitalist advocates. This is not only an ecological molestation of the world we know, but a political issue on the scale of the French Revolution.
The 21st century version of the guillotine must be brought out from the attic by becoming more politically active on this very troubling issue, an issue which indeed threatens our very lives as a species and Mother Earth – {We} are our only last hope of survival – “be the change you wish to see in the world” and take action in any and every way you possibly can.
The United States is using twice as much paper per capita as other highly civilized nations (Europe, Japan). Let us not ask genetic engineering to do what could be accomplished by lower-tech means like putting a surcharge on junk mail, which would save billions of trees nationally and profoundly reduce C02 emissions that cause global warming.
Should we oppose genetic “improvements” to trees on public lands? We can’t allow the industry to be judged by its hype and that patented genes are not an improvement over nature. We also must avoid only judging what one gene may do, because once hundreds of different fragments of hacked, patented genetic code are allowed access to public lands, the consequences of unintended combinations will be unpredictable. GE trees will also be a danger in other nations, particularly in the underdeveloped world where conditions for effective regulation often don’t exist.
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