Not really an "environmental" subject except a similarity to the spread of the "green revolution" which led to overpopulation stimulus. "We believe if we can get nitron fixing cereals we can deliver much higher yields to farmers in Africa and allow them to grow enough food for themselves." That was the same faulty thinking that got them grossly overpopulated after WWII especially. Instead of more food lifting them out of near starvation poverty, they just bred more until they were again at near starvation poverty level, and close to crashing. I thought Gates was smarter. He would do better to give them massive education, teach them to compost and use solar cookers and power, promote women's rights, free sterilizations, vasectomies, and birth control, or just let them crash to at or below sustainable level, like they will anyway with more food.
_________________ "With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle “Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein
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