This event comes at a crucial historical moment. Ecological systems are near collapse global climate, soils and fertility; fresh water supply; deep ocean life, forests, biodiversity; diminishing global food production; and unprecedented rates of species extinctions. Many in our society see the ecological crisis as a grand new economic opportunity for growth and profit. If nature is being destroyed, we can create new nature. Technologies are rolling out to introduce substitute nature. For example: GEO-ENGINEERING (to solve the climate crisis by re-seeding the heavens and inventing techno-climate); GMOs (to re-arrange the genetics of food, animals, and trees, making them more profitable); SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY (creating new artificial life forms, including genetically redesigned humans taller? smarter? better looking?; and NANOTECHNOLOGY (to replace the planets billion-years-old molecular structures for greater efficiency.) We prefer the old planet.....
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 05:26:48 +0000
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