oh of course - more GMO crops is the answer to the urgent crisis of industrial pollution. Write a heart-strings tug article and get it out now! (and call funders since the journalist is likely starving while next to a grocery store today)
I'd refrain from calling people naive. Farmers would call your approach naive as they know that every promile of productivity counts and can make or break their investment. As you said, this is very unintuitive and it's hard to imagine how much can a tiny increase of productivity at the base level change at the output - but it really is a lot.
agree, that is why I wrote "the answer is naive", not a quality of a person writing the comment.