So are farmers smart enough to know that if you kill nematodes, you kill the soil and are therefore fully dependent on chemical companies if you want to keep farming? Are they smart enough to know that you should NEVER use this product? Most I have talked to lately insist its impossible to produce food without chemicals, which just isn't true. In fact, most studies show that the surpluses would be larger without chemicals limiting the environment. We might have to eat more than five crops and not use corn in everything (but then it isn't in ANY of my cookbooks, so why is corn syrup in all my food?). Unfortunately, your examples above of early adoption suggest that farmers go for "shiny" things, rather than useful tech. Try getting them to adopt precision fertilization using GPS, and they balk, because it isn't about the environment, its only about yield maps. So the shiny advert will convince them to make the soil into a barren substrate...

The center is known for some level of hysterics (but also raising public awareness), and this is a case of hysterics. The problem is not population growth, the problem is overconsumption. The places in the world where population is growing tend to consume about 1/40th of the resources of the average person in the US. So until the population of India hits 12 Billion, I am more worried about resource waste in the first world (which tends to have shrinking populations) than population growth in the third world.

Democracy is a nice ideal, but where is it practiced? Truth is we have governments, they are all basically the same, and the most efficient are dictatorships. Lovelock is off base about some things, but this solution is really the only solution, because the US proves that there is danger when the majority is wrong or stupid.

And while part of the problem is the IR energy stored in the oceans, the problem is still that too much radiation is trapped by the atmosphere. This solution would only work if the sun was the problem, rather than the atmosphere.

Acidfication caused by too much carbon, which is also causing the warming, which means the same solution is required, not an adaptation.