Civilization Depends On Our Expanding Ability To

We Need To Continue To Decrease The Growth Rate Of The Global Population; The Planet Can't Support Many More People.

Jumping Genes Are Fundamental Because They're Agents Of Change. Everybody Knows That Organisms Evolve. What Makes Them Evolve Is That Their Genes Are Dynamic And In Motion. A Familiar Example Is The Stripe-y Corn - Called Indian Corn - That You Buy In The Fall.

We've Gotten So Good At Growing Food That We've Gone, In A Few Generations, From Nearly Half Of Americans Living On Farms To 2 Percent. We No Longer Think About How The Wonderful Things In The Grocery Store Got There, And We'd Like To Go Back To What We Think Is A More Natural Way.

India Has The Opportunity To Be A Leader In Genetic Engineering, It Has Institutions That No Other Country Has.

There Are Probably Already Too Many People On The Planet.