--- title: Let’s Debate the Value of GMO Crops description: Let's debate the value of GMO crops, cities must lead on inclusive growth and more. canonical: https://time.com/4576320/lets-debate-the-value-of-gmo-crops/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-18T17:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:19.157Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Let's Debate the Value of GMO Crops og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4576320/lets-debate-the-value-of-gmo-crops/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Let's Debate the Value of GMO Crops twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Let's Debate the Value of GMO Crops by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 18, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 18, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We debate the safety of GMO crops. Why not their value?**](http://daily.jstor.org/are-gm-crops-worth-it/) By James MacDonald at JSTOR Daily **2\.** [**To make the world more fair, cities must lead on inclusive growth.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cities-inequality-inclusive-growth-by-lamia-kamal-chaoui-and-amy-liu-2016-11) By Lamia Kamal-Chaoui and Amy Liu at Project Syndicate **3\.** [**With fewer regulations slowing them down, driverless trucks are poised to hit the road in China.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602854/chinas-driverless-trucks-are-revving-their-engines/) By Will Knight in the MIT Technology Review **4\.** [**Should we make voting compulsory?**](https://www.revealnews.org/blog/if-the-u-s-forced-people-to-vote-would-it-improve-turnout/) By Sérgio Spagnuolo in Reveal **5\.** [**Our fear of dying is making us more politically right-wing.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-fear-of-death-makes-people-more-right-wing) By Bobby Azarian in Aeon  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4576320/lets-debate-the-value-of-gmo-crops/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4576320/lets-debate-the-value-of-gmo-crops/"},"headline":"Let's Debate the Value of GMO Crops","datePublished":"2016-11-18T17:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:19.157Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4576320/lets-debate-the-value-of-gmo-crops/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","politics","Voting","cities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4576320/lets-debate-the-value-of-gmo-crops/","name":"Let's Debate the Value of GMO Crops"}}]}] ```