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Re:Overshooting Earth’s Boundaries: An Interview with Bill Rees by kulahan on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:11PM (#37796479)
We're already modifying genes just fine; what makes you think it would take millions of years? Maybe a few hundred.
Re:Overshooting Earth’s Boundaries: An Interview with Bill Rees by JohnMakin on Friday October 06, 2023 @06:16PM (#37797053)
Natural selection is a far different process than humans selectively editing genes. Even if we gained a perfect understanding of every species on earth (we haven't even come close to finding them all) and were somehow able to scale this to impact the entire planet's genome, the idea that humans are somehow going to be able to select traits better and orders of magnitude faster than nature is the absolute height of arrogance and this comment is a good example of the exact reason we are screwed.