Post by Origanalist on Jul 30, 2017 6:11:00 GMT -8
Published on Jun 25, 2013 The latest science suggests that it is too late to prevent human-induced climate change. Technological optimists are now turning their minds to mitigation through techniques of geo-engineering, like giant space mirrors or seeding the oceans with iron to prompt carbon-absorbing algal blooms. But projects to alter the entire planet will expose all life to massive risk.
So, why not address the source of the problem and engineer humans to reduce our environmental impact and adapt? Genetic engineering could make us smaller or reduce our appetite for meat. Doses of Oxytocin could make us more sympathetic and cooperative. Such possibilities are criticised as extreme, but are they any more so than re-engineering the planet?
Speaker - Matthew Liao
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."
Seems like a good time to quote another eugenicist...
'The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.'--Josef Mengele
Last Edit: Jul 30, 2017 8:31:58 GMT -8 by acptulsa
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