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We need to genetically engineer trees and the like to produce houses. We should be living with life rather than a cancer against it.
by devoply 7y ago
We need to genetically engineer trees and the like to produce houses. We should be living with life rather than a cancer against it.
- sansnomme 7y agoAll for it if you can sterilize it and get rid of insects etc.
- pushpop 7y agoI agree with you to an extent but genetically engineering life to suit us doesn’t strike me as any less cancerous.
- natpalmer1776 7y agoTo provide what I feel is a more accurate analogy than the one given by GP: We currently have a destructive parasitic relationship with our ecosystem in which we consume resources without replenishing them, whereas the goal GP described is to pursue a more symbiotic parasitic relationship in which we give back resources that allow for the continuation of the ecosystem, even if in an altered form. Depending on your interpretation of 'symbiotic' the proposal by the GP may better be described as 'disadvantageous' as by engineering our environment we put it in a relatively inferior state compared to its' natural one.
- transreal 7y agoFor more on this topic, I can't recommend this book more highly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle:_Remaking_the_Way_We_Make_Things https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle:_Remaking_t...
- sk5t 7y ago> more symbiotic parasitic relationship This may properly be called commensalism, if the benefitting species avoids harming its host.
- user982 7y agoWe need to genetically engineer humans into forms that don't need houses anymore.
- cwkoss 7y agoAlternate back lore for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- sumitviii 7y agoImagine seeds that grow into a house. This is dream stuff!