The article GMOs Could Cause Irreversible Termination of Life on Earth warns:

"Distinguished risk engineer and two-time best-selling author Nassim Taleb thinks an even bigger problem with GMOs is their threat to the planet, and the statistical likelihood that they will eventually lead to the collapse of life on Earth. In a new study, which is still in draft form, this professor of risk engineering from New York University uses statistical analysis to make the case that GMOs, by their very nature, will disrupt the ecosystems of this planet in ways that mankind is only just beginning to comprehend. Because they represent a systemic risk rather than a localized one -- GM traits are known to spread throughout the environment -- GMOs will eventually breach the "ecocide barrier," leading to catastrophic ecosystem failure...it's essentially impossible to contain the inevitable spread of GMO traits....the 'ruin' is ecocide: an irreversible termination of life at some scale, which could be the planet."

 

The article Growing GM Crops is an Irreversible Act of Ecological Folly cautions:

"The European Commission is failing to protect Europe against determined pressure from the United States to accept genetically modified organisms. Opposition to GMOs is based on the argument that the damage they do to the environment may be irreversible.  The seed transnationals are looking to expand in three ways: more countries, more trade, more varieties. They also produce and market herbicides, pesticides and pharmaceutical products. Monsanto, Syngenta, Aventis, Dupont, Dow claim to be in the life sciences business but the idea is to patent genes, seed, and all associated technologies, with the ultimate aim of effectively controlling farming around the world.

In the US, five firms led by Monsanto control almost 90% of GM seed, together with associated pesticides and herbicides. And they will stop at nothing to silence their opponents....We also know that GMOs, although designed to resist herbicides and pesticides, generate super-weeds and super-predators and that these may invade the genetic heritage on which farming depends and reduce its variety. Growing GMOs, except in a confined space, is an irreversible act of ecological folly.

 

Their biological time-bomb will produce Chernobyl-type catastrophes....Is the introduction of GMOs justified by the profits, if only in the short term? Not even that. Despite subsidies of billions of dollars, US farmers who eagerly joined in the venture have lost a lot of money. And they have also had to cope with ultra-resistant plant diseases. The only ones to benefit from GM crops are big biotech firms and their political supporters in the US and Europe.

 

Europe is still the prime market for GM products. In 1999, when the European Union declared a moratorium on imports of GMOs, the US threatened to lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organisation as a deterrent to countries like Brazil and Mexico which had taken similar steps.....Such determination to defend US transnationals, by what is supposed to be the European Commission, is staggering. The struggle against this political-genetic- industrial juggernaut is a public health issue."