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Yes this comment is easily dismissed as anti-science. But it’s not. It’s anti-harmful-technology. Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t
by kennywinker 4y ago
Yes this comment is easily dismissed as anti-science. But it’s not. It’s anti-harmful-technology. Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t believe we should get to make new messes. So, yeah it’s cool they made a database of materials, but what are materials people doing coming up with new materials - some of which will bio-accumulate - when our bodies are still filling up with all the other junk previous materials people came up with? It’s long past due for technology workers to take responsibility for their work and stop adding to the “technical debt” of environmental toxins we’re swimming in.
- csdvrx 4y ago> Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t believe we should get to make new messes What if the new materials are necessary to clean up the old messes? With your method, we'd be stuck forever! > Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t believe we should get to make new messes Software, biology and chemistry are not even remotely comparable!
- kennywinker 4y agoI can pretty easily compare them… Software pollutes our culture and damages our political environments with toxic platforms, adtech tracking nightmares that have been co-opted by Stasi-esque government agencies. Those are just the first two things that come to mind. Biology… hasn’t done too much harm. Biology’s biggest crime to date that I can think of is probably suicide seeds. Maybe there are things I’m not thinking of. Certainly crispr and GMOs pose a risk, but the benefits have outweighed the risk pretty well. But maybe we’ve just gotten lucky. Chemistry… has a very long list. Forever chemicals, mustard gas and other chemical weapons, the chemical dousing chambers of el paso texas (search “bath riots”) and their legacy…