Young scientists call on Greens to support GM to mitigate climate change

An open letter to the Greens from 150 scientists aged under 30:

Climate change is one of the greatest crises in human history, and our current law severely restricts the development of technologies that could make a vital difference. In 2003 the 1996 Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act was modified to tightly regulate research into genetic modification (GM). This legislation and the surrounding public debate was driven by uncertainty about the risks that these new technologies posed to biodiversity and human health, and resulted in creating one of the toughest regulatory environments in the world for this field of research.
We, an emerging generation of New Zealand scientists with expertise in and/or undertaking research in the biological sciences*, are writing to request that the Green Party reconsider its position on the regulation of these technologies.

They young scientists are right, but I fear they are wasting their time.

The majority of Green Party activists do not believe in science. They have a near religious belief that anything that interferes with “nature” is bad and hence they’ll never support GM.

It shows that they don’t in fact thing climate change is an emergency, because if they did they would be saying we must use all the tools available.