A Brighter, Better Future

There have always been doomsayers. You know the kind, “the sky is always falling and disaster lurks around every corner”. They seem to get an abnormal glee from predicting doom and gloom. Every generation has their fair share of problems. Foreign conflicts, economic unrest and disease are factors that remain a constant down through history; only the players and names have changed. But seeing the glass half empty is a bad habit to get into. New technologies and innovations offer us a bright and promising future. While disease still exists, our ability to identify, treat, and prevent disease has improved a hundred fold. Solar and wind power has the promise and possibility to unleash us from the dependency on carbon fuels. Farmers can and will step up to the challenge as they always have and meet the ever growing demand for affordable food. The future isn’t anything to be afraid of, on the contrary, as more and more countries work together to realize their full potential in the areas of science, technology, and agriculture the world promises to be a much better place indeed.