Guess who's gonna clean up our environmental mess now?Not human-made robots, scrubbers or towers, nor those glowing Chinese pigs, but these fancy new micro-organisms made from scratch - the first form of human-made synthetic life.
These newest human bastardizations of life are supposed to "gobble up pollution, produce hard-to-make drugs, pump out clean energy, or, at the whimsical end, flowers designed to bloom on your birthday." Whimsy with genomes.
Gobble up pollution? Produce clean energy? Is this supposed to be a "safe" alternative to carbon? (Even safer than hydrogen?)
Indeed. The man at the helm, Craig Venter, says this new "design phase of biology" enables any idiot with a computer to "type up genetic code with keystrokes, e-mail it to a commercial lab that spits it out as chemical dots on a glass sheet, synthesizes it, tucks it into a bacteria for transport and returns a live version to the customer."
I can't wait to try it myself and make a killing in the process (no pun intended).Though with idiots like Ed Stelmach already in charge of things, our time is limited anyway. Today he announced his swift 2020 target for capping emissions: "our climate-change plan ensures environmental protection while allowing for continued economic growth."
Sorry shithead, but you're growing the wrong industry.
Oh well. Given our ongoing carnival of delirium, we might as well go out with a bang and make a dirty fortune while we still can.
Labels: Ed Stelmach, environment, global warming, synthetic life
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