food available and we're still producing lots of energy and materials from oil, very rapidly, our kropp goes to hell -- our crop goes to hell. >> to raise an interesting thought for me. i come from britain where there has still been been as successful trial of a genetically modified crop because the protesters have trashed the field every time. will this go to china were indifferent -- where a different the approach would play out? >> of want to be able to follow what is going on. we can read and write dna with increasing ease. the feature of that is that now, students participating in a competition the design new organisms and try to pull pieces of the shelf to snap together. i am fortunate to be a judge for this. i am amazed every year of what the students come up with. the last four years for cambridge, the year before the it was in beijing pennsylvania was the year before that. -- was in beijing, and sylvania was the year before that. the natural question is if they can build pathogens? the answer that usually give is that, yes, you should be worried, but there is nothing you can do