Chinese Crop Researchers – They Have A Problem With The Climate, As We All Do, But They Are Solving It The Hard Way, By Changing The Biology Of Their Crops! That Is By Way Of This Logic – “If You Can’t Solve A Problem, Change The Problem!”

Climate Change vs Biological Change. Here are the Chinese scientists solving a problem by changing the problem! Instead of stopping what can be stopped in Climate Change – the use of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides that generate greenhouse gases that generate climate change – Chinese scientists are changing crops biologically. Is that the way Chinese scientists are demonstrating to the world that they are “resilient”? Asking as a friend!

Read the News Deskreport (23 Dec 2024, “Chinese Scientists Innovate Climate-Resilient Crops,” Daily CPEC, thedailycpec.com):

Chinese scientists innovate climate-resilient crops to combat climate change and modify crops according to high temperatures.

As the need for climate-resilient crops becomes increasingly critical, Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in improving crop productivity under high-temperature conditions. Their novel approach addresses the urgent challenge posed by rising global temperatures.

Breakthrough? Maybe, but that is in the way of changing the problem, not solving the problem!

These researchers are not creative, only technical? The argument of the Chinese scientists is this: “The weather is getting hotter, so for higher yields, we need crops that can withstand higher and higher temperature!”

They are not looking at the why of Climate Change; instead, they are looking at what they can do in terms of research, not what they can do to stop farmers from applying chemical fertilizers and pesticides that help generate those high temperatures!

That is solving a problem by creating another!

Are Chinese researchers merely critical, not creative? “Don’t the Chinese researchers know that it is the application of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides that generate greenhouse gases (GHGs), and it is those GHGs that help produce Climate Change?”

Genius Albert Einstein said: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Where is Chinese genius here?! Instead, to increase yields of any crop and/or stop the reduction of yields, why don’t those Chinese researchers conduct studies on any of the 13 methods (in my list) of Regenerative Agriculture (RA), as follows:

(1) Cover Cropping, (2) Crop Rotation, (3) Farm Crops + Tree Crops (Agroforestry), (4) Green Manuring, (5) Intercropping, (6) Multiple Cropping, (7) No-Till Farming, (8) Organic Fertilization, (9) Ratooning, (10) Rotational Grazing, (11) “Three Sisters” Planting, (12) Trap Cropping, (13) Trash Mulching.

13 intelligent cropping choices – not a single one mentions changing the biology of a crop!

The above RA list points to 2 choices: (1) why not simply change your crop, or (2) the way you farm with your favorite crop? If you insist on applying fertilizer, the RA list has 3 ways – “(4) Green Manuring,” “(8) Organic Fertilization, and “(13) Trash Mulching.” Each is one way of applying organic fertilizer on your field.

And let me not forget that none of the practices in my RA list calls for the application of chemical fertilizers and/or chemical pesticides!@517