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Re:The Materials Project by csdvrx on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:24PM (#31982355)
> Until we learn to clean up our messes (using science!) I don’t believe we should get to make new messes

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!

Re:The Materials Project by kennywinker on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:52AM (#31984442)
I can pretty easily compare them…

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…