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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 03:54 PM EDT |
Are you certain we can?
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. All that Monzanto et al has is a little
knowledge, and a lot of greed.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 04:10 PM EDT |
We're human, that's what we do.
Whether it's terracing Chinese/Peruvian/Israeli hillsides or building
fishponds/drainage canals/harbors/latrines every in the Mississippi Valley,
burning forests in the Yucatan or driving predators in North Africa extinct,
deliberately selecting particular apple trees for grafting or accidentally
selecting grass strains for grinding into flour, breeding horses or dogs or
ornamental pigeons--for that matter, producing psychotropic drugs for
recreational use ... humans do that thing.
The trick is to find some way of harnessing that essentially human activity in a
way that doesn't cause damage greater (or more permanent) than its benefits.
Which is a real trick considering that "my great-great-grandchildren"
is surprisingly difficult concept to visualize even in a stable society; in a
failing society, "my children" may come to mean no more than
"slave labor" or worse, "disposable weapons" and/or
"food".
And at any given timer, there are a lot of failing or failed societies around
the world.
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| Authored by: Wol on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 04:39 PM EDT |
And we're not the only species to do it. Take a simple plant ... GRASS!
Ever wondered about grass fires? That is grass adapting the environment to get
rid of trees and other competitors.
Or the groundhog ... aiui the prairie dog farms! Near a burrow you will find a
lovely nutritious grass sward. And that's because the prairie dog actively weeds
it and gets rid of plants they don't like.
Okay, we now do it to a far greater extent than any other species (or so we
think), but we're not the first to do it, and I doubt we'll be the last.
Cheers,
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| Authored by: albert on Friday, September 21 2012 @ 07:22 PM EDT |
Perhaps we need a </cynicism> tag?
I know I would be using it a lot!
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