I was going to post a couple of old articles as background to my various dot points, and found this from last week which covers most of the debate and quite a bit more. Also has up-to-date information on where Government regulation is at. Quite a good article.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...

Some background on biotech in general.

http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/agricultural_bio...