Terms like toxic-free, safe and zero-pollution are emotional dreams which, like unicorns, don’t exist.
Category: Innovation
The Top Ten KeystoneCorona Moments of 2020: Part 9/10 – The Over-Promise of Normalisation
“Normal” isn’t coming back…so why are we denormalising the disruptors?
Carbon Farming Part 2: Cover Crops and Carbon Sequestration
If cover crops sequester vast amounts of CO2, why do they want to ban glyphosate?
My Feedback to the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
The EU wants to take a hazard-based precautionary approach to all chemicals (unless we speak up).
Why Precautionary COVID-19 Lockdowns Failed Humanity
A world demanding zero risk can’t manage risks. We’re in trouble.
Agronomy’s AIDS Moment
Was Monbiot’s Apocalypse Cow the crisis agriculture needed to save humanity?
The Risk-Monger’s Five Sacrifices to Save the Planet
Five things you have to stop doing if we’ll ever have a chance to stop climate change.
Green Ideology: It was never about the Environment
Why, to save the planet, we need to stop environmentalists.
Pascal’s Precautionary Wager: The Logic of Fear
To understand the fear-based precautionary logic, we need to go back to a previous religious doctrine.
Crops Matter: Young Citizens take the Initiative
A group of ag-tech students have launched a Citizens’ Initiative to get the EU to responsibly regulate plant breeding techniques.
The Poison of Precaution (IUPAC Keynote)
Precaution is poisoning our ability to solve problems. My IUPAC keynote text.
The Poison of Precaution: The Anti-Science Mindset
20 years of precaution has taught us to abandon science-based solutions.
