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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by awestroke on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:07AM (#27649021)
I'm not sure your calm and comprehensive reckoning of your options will be comprehensive enough to have any effect on where we as a species are heading.

Because I don't shy away from facts, I am paralyzed? I disagree. If anything, I am less paralyzed than people who refuse to see where this path leads. I vote for green policies and try to inform others, even when I know there is no hope.

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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by civilized on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:45AM (#27650777)
Nah, you don't know the technology well enough to say if there is no hope. This is just the fashionable moralistic eco-despair of the privileged: "we are doomed because we deserve it." No, we're not doomed, maybe some poor people of the global South are because of what we do, but we're not.
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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by awestroke on Sunday June 27, 2021 @08:35AM (#27651077)
The science agrees with me. What is this "the technology" that you refer to? Carbon capture?
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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by civilized on Sunday June 27, 2021 @08:51AM (#27651181)
"The" science, whatever that is supposed to be, doesn't say we are all doomed.
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