What if the new materials are necessary to clean up the old messes?

With your method, we'd be stuck forever!

> Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t believe we should get to make new messes

Software, biology and chemistry are not even remotely comparable!

Software pollutes our culture and damages our political environments with toxic platforms, adtech tracking nightmares that have been co-opted by Stasi-esque government agencies. Those are just the first two things that come to mind.

Biology… hasn’t done too much harm. Biology’s biggest crime to date that I can think of is probably suicide seeds. Maybe there are things I’m not thinking of. Certainly crispr and GMOs pose a risk, but the benefits have outweighed the risk pretty well. But maybe we’ve just gotten lucky.

Chemistry… has a very long list. Forever chemicals, mustard gas and other chemical weapons, the chemical dousing chambers of el paso texas (search “bath riots”) and their legacy…