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Some corporation, GM.

GM Really? Oh my!

let's say it's GM.

It's two breeding cycles for maize.

Like everyone else, we grew maize.

GM old goes to 0.

GM I am picking peas.

Ethiopian maize farmers produced two years of bumper harvest.

GM Yes? Too shy to say so, right?

Right now, the shares of GM go to 0.

So you can imagine a world where GM goes bankrupt.

led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.

If you want a more positive model this is the GM car.

The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize.

I came out of a blue collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.

In Ethiopia, for example, the variation in maize prices from year to year is as much as 50 percent annually.

The next three biscuits are the foods that we decide to feed to livestock, the maize, the wheat and the soya.

By 2030, if the maize, or corn, varieties, which is the dominant crop 50 percent of the nutrition in Southern Africa are still in the field in 2030, we'll have a 30 percent decrease in production of maize because of the climate change already in 2030.

They're kind of using scare tactics to say, oh, if GM goes bankrupt, then these assets are just going to disappear.

Ethiopia's agricultural market is 30 percent higher than South Africa's grain production, and, in fact, Ethiopia is the second largest maize producer in Africa.

Even the latest technologies, like GM crops, regardless of the other arguments, are as utterly dependent on fossil fuel as any other.

So you end up with at least two fifths lower capital intensity than the leanest plant in the industry, which GM has in Lansing.

I don't say let's go back to the Copper Canyons and live on corn and maize, which is the Tarahumara's preferred diet, but maybe there's somewhere in between.

And in the upper left, a pioneering effort 14 years ago by GM 84 miles a gallon without even using a hybrid, in a four seater.

They only paid me, like, a little bit of money to do this, so I had to call a friend of a friend who was running the GM prototype plant, SLA plant, that was down.

A few years later, when we suggested to GM that now is the time and we could do a thing called the Impact, they sponsored it, and here's the Impact that we developed with them on their programs.

You know, I could be wrong about this, but my sense is that in the public mind, today, that GM is not viewed as serious about some of these environmental ideas as some of your Japanese competitors, maybe even as Ford.

If you include not just the food that ends up in shops and restaurants, but also the food that people feed to livestock, the maize, the soy, the wheat, that humans could eat but choose to fatten livestock instead to produce increasing amounts of meat and dairy products, what you find is that most rich countries have between three and four times the amount of food that their population needs to feed itself.