3 ms·
I remember reading somewhere that there is money to fight climate change. It is just that it is being spend on weapons, like this one. Efforts would be much b
by dchichkov 7y ago
I remember reading somewhere that there is money to fight climate change. It is just that it is being spend on weapons, like this one. Efforts would be much better spent, trying to reduce the rate of destruction of ecological services. There are between 200 and 2,000 species extinctions occur every year. Could one be saved for a price of one rifle like this?
- CRUDite 7y agoNature has devised molecular machinery specific to our time on this earth. Want to freeze yourself for a deep space trip? There is a creature that can do that. Want to regrow limbs? Survive like a tardigrade? Not get cancer? Everything we need is out there. Some of it will be key to the future. In some cases it took many millions of years to evolve. Vancomycin came from soil, what else lies in wait for bio-prospectors and molecule hunters? Nothing if its all dead. There should be a prime directive and it should be for life on this planet
- SturgeonsLaw 7y agoIt's truly criminal that we're potentially losing out on gamechanging biotech in order to facilitate archaic profit generating schemes like chopping down trees for lumber or digging up coal to burn. Our future is getting mortgaged in more ways than one.
- growlist 7y agoIf we don't defend ourselves, we might accidentally cede the world to people that have no regard for the environment whatsoever.