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Editor’s note: David Fleming’s former colleague Lawrence Woodward offers the following comment: Only four crops—corn (maize), oil seed rape (canola), soy bean and cotton engineered for herbicide and Bt tolerance—make up over 90% of the global GM acreage. Since David’s death a number of other crops have been developed which have not been commercially developed or widely grown despite great claims and widespread promotion. For a comprehensive review of GMO cropping, see John Fagan, Michael Antoniou and Claire Robinson, “GMO Myths and Truths” (second edition), Earth Open Source, 2014. See also www.gmeducation.org .

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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