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So, because we want "easy" farming of monocultures we engineer crops that we can spray with poison and still survive. Then we determine that we are creating a
by malyk 12y ago
So, because we want "easy" farming of monocultures we engineer crops that we can spray with poison and still survive.
Then we determine that we are creating a strain of weeds that is resistant to the current batch of poison, so we engineer crops that are resistant to a stronger poison.
Then we determine that the crops/poisons we've engineered are killing a huge number of butterflies. So, instead of questioning whether or not our first principle, engineering poison resistant crops, you are suggesting we engineer a new poison resistant weed so we don't kill the butterflies?
At what point do we stop trying to engineer ourselves out of a problem that engineering is creating in the first place?
- jeremysmyth 12y agoAny question that has its answer somewhere along a line from pure free-market capitalism to pure totalitarian nanny-statism is by definition a political problem and therefore without an easy answer. This is lobbyist territory, through and through.