I have been discombobulated to learn that Mark Lynas, my fellow GM opponent and prominent Green blobber, has – in middle age – changed from rabid anti-GM activist (he even belonged to an ecological anarchist group called Earth First) to impassioned advocate of the technology. Lynas, a scientist, realised he had been thinking emotionally rather than scientifically. Do I need to re-examine my own prejudices? Certainly I am beginning to think that anything would be better than pesticide spraying. In earlier life, I was certain that the best thing a human could do was plant trees everywhere. As a schoolboy, I joined the government-sponsored campaign, ‘Plant a Tree in ’73’. Dutch elm disease was then wrecking the countryside, and my father and I planted dozens of native replacements at our family home in Cheshire. I carried on planting for the next forty years, until I had effectively blocked out...
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