Sorry; while the administration does seem to be taking big steps backward on the environment, all the Sierra Club gets from me is a Bushian smirk—though I still support other environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy. I stopped feeding the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and Environmental Defense when they targeted genetically modified crops in a war that looked more social and political than ecological. As part of an activist organization called The Turning Point Project, the Sierra Club took out full-page newspaper ads claiming that "biotechnology = hunger." According to Sierra's sages, GM crops will "...increase pollution of the soil, air, rivers and oceans."
That kind of charge is not only inflammatory, it's uninformed and remarkably shortsighted, especially coming from people who supposedly value the long-term health of planet Earth and its inhabitants. Take Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn. By placing a bacterial gene encoding an insect-killing toxin into corn plants, scientists ...
