8th May 2013, 9:22 AM
I posted this after my initial euphoria after seeing this TED talk. I'm here now to say that after researching it more, I was wrong to take all this in so uncritically. Rather than delete this, I felt it better for you to learn from my mistake.
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2013/03/1...-ted-talk/
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/..._have.html
His solution MAY show some LIMITED potential, but certainly isn't the panacia he claims it to be and certainly would do a lot of harm in the wrong areas, like true deserts.
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2013/03/1...-ted-talk/
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/..._have.html
His solution MAY show some LIMITED potential, but certainly isn't the panacia he claims it to be and certainly would do a lot of harm in the wrong areas, like true deserts.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)