At the 2016 World Science Festival, a panellist openly discussed using genetic engineering of humans to “address climate change.” He went on to give two examples of how editing the human genome could mitigate “climate change.”
Powerful new genetic tools allow scientists to alter the DNA of any organism – with tests on human embryos already underway. Even more ambitious, synthetic biologists on the verge of creating the genetic material for a living organism from scratch are setting their long-term sites on fashioning a fully synthetic human genome. With bold promises of disease resistance and controlling human evolution, this explosive progress has ignited ethical debate. As we rewrite our code of life, how will we revise the code we live by?
[ + ] TheViciousMrPim
[ - ] TheViciousMrPim 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 18, 2023 18:53:18 ago (+0/-0)
The world is in this position because your High School class government was a CIA operation to groom retarded narcissists into positions of actual power.
Everything you learned in HS was preparation for now.
[ + ] BulletStopper
[ - ] BulletStopper 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 18, 2023 21:46:41 ago (+0/-0)*
"Just shut up and trust the SCIENCE!!"
Uh-huh. Well, I take the far more traditional view that the sun, planetary weather patterns, AND seismology are ALL controlled by throwing stupid fucking idiots into active volcanos. We're just not doing enough of it.
First, it reduces the total life-time carbon footprint of said idiots to zero (which I'm sure they would approve of).
Second, it appeases "The Big Woo", thereby reducing earthquakes. So we'd at least have that going for us. Which would be nice.
(About 11,500 years ago humans started throwing their idiots into active volcanos and finally brought the Younger Dryas period to an end. Haven't had any global level natural catastrophies since, have we? So there. Science.)
[ + ] ilikeskittles
[ - ] ilikeskittles 0 points 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2023 10:27:40 ago (+0/-0)