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Life on the planet is facing unprecedented difficulties from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seed products is a less visible but believe it or not fundamental threat to your survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their capacity to regenerate and conform are essential to retaining our food supply and our ability to cope with a changing environment.
In Uncertain Peril, environmental journalist Claire Desire Cummings exposes the experiences behind the surge of commercial agriculture and seed biotechnology, nov public interest knowledge, and the folly of patenting seed products. She examines how farming communities are dealing with declining water, ground, and fossil fuels, as well much like new commercial technologies. Will genetically manufactured and "terminator" seed products lead to certain offer, as some have hoped, or are we getting into a journey of uncertain peril? Will the "doomsday vault" under building in the Arctic, made to store an incredible number of seed products, save the genetic variety of the world's agriculture?
To answer these questions while others, Cummings takes viewers from the Fertile Crescent in Iraq to the island of Kaua'i in Hawai'i; from Oaxaca, Mexico, to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. She examines the plight of farmers who have planted transgenic seed products and scientists who've been persecuted for exposing the risks of altered genes.
At each flip, Cummings appears deeply into the romantic relationship between people and plants. She examines the options for both scarcity and abundance and tells the experiences of local communities that are producing food and petrol sustainably and providing for future years. The choices we make about how we feed ourselves now will determine whether or not seed products will continue as a large source of sustenance and continue to be the common history of all mankind. It comes down to the: whoever controls the future of seeds controls the future of life on the planet.
Uncertain Peril is a robust reminder that what's at stake right now could be nothing significantly less than the nature of the future.
