The recent Rome food crisis summit has reinvigorated the debate about genetically modified (GM) crops as a solution to hunger. But GM proponents couldn’t be further removed from critics than now.

The GM lobby has jumped on global warming. The lobby frequently cites the argument that improving food crops prevents hunger. And that sounds good. The planet’s exploding demography problems are closely linked with global warming. By the year 2050, it’s estimated that the world population will be around 9.3 billion. This means that in only a few millennia, the world population will grow by a massive 3 billion. Feeding all the people will have a dramatic impact on our food production. It already has. Millions of hectares of rainforests and wilderness have been destroyed to fullfil the global population’s energy needs. And accelerating CO2 problems.