Will Heaven Will Heaven is a writer who specialises in politics and the internet. He also writes about Catholicism and religion. He can be emailed at will.heaven@telegraph.co.uk and is @WillHeaven on Twitter. India shelves GM food crop plans – while millions remain malnourished By Will Heaven World Last updated: February 9th, 2010 8 Comments Comment on this article India has dropped plans to release the country’s first genetically modified food crop, Dean Nelson reports, because of fears over “the long-term effects on human health”. This appalling decision was taken by the environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, who said the following:

Administration Support for Biofuels is Part of a Bigger Policy Need February 4th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment President Obama and members of his Biofuels Interagency Working Group are to be applauded for actions announced this week that will reinforce the vital role that biofuels will play in our nation’s energy future. The administration unveiled on Wednesday steps they say will boost the development of biofuels and generate billions of dollars in additional revenue for rural America.

Any 600 million productrion of Jatropha would need involvement of all those who have worked for years in DBT projects and developed accessions and high yielding plants. (Kumar 2008)

The debate of food vs fuel is an excuse for putting lame excuses for our failures to retain productivity level of the farmlands, irregular practices of growing crops in the areas where they should not be grown .i.e. growing rice in areas which is not its “natural home”, introducing plants in ecological zones not adapted to receive “strangers plants”

An integrated approach is needed to mitigate climate change it needs social change in thinking process also.

R. K. Pachauri Are the world and human society in general ready and willing to take action on critical issues that require a major change in the manner in which we produce and consume goods and services? AP One of the favourable outcomes of the Copenhagen conference that ended in a stalemate, was the acceptance of a 2°C limit on temperature increase.