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> 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 t
by 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…