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“The changes are the result of the cooperation agreement with the Green Party. They mean that when the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) receives an application to conditionally release a GMO, the applicant will have to show how they plan to keep the GMOs separate from other organisms and how they propose to trace the GMO, if that is appropriate.”
Yep, and I have written down my plan to lasso a thundercloud. I expect government approval any day now.
“A profound U.S. recession will likely resonate worldwide and push conservation to the bottom of governments’ priority lists for years to come, said Alejandro Nadal, who chairs an IUCN working group on macroeconomics and the environment.”
Even so, there is a lot that individuals can do: driving less and walking or biking more, not wasting electricity at home, eating organic food, etc.
“‘We want people to pay attention to something [that] could kill us, that are not so easy to see,’ he said. ‘But, it’s very easy to check, if we look in the right place, and looking in the right place means monitoring the health of wildlife.’
People aren’t going to pay attention until it’s possibly too late, because there’s something good on TV tonight; so scientists and governments will need to just go ahead and monitor these things and hopefully act appropriately.
