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Of course, the argument against such intervention is also compelling. The reasoning behind “genetic rescue” is the sort responsible…
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Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Human nature requires catastrophes to jolt us into change—but with some catastrophes, notably climate change, by the time that happens it may be too late.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Andy Parker is the project director for the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative, which works to expand the “global conversation” around geoengineering. His preferred drug analogy for the technology is chemotherapy. No one in his right mind would undergo chemotherapy were better options available. “We live in a world,” he has said, “whe
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Among the other proponents of gain-of-function research was one Anthony Fauci. In December 2011, he was the lead author—along with Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the NIH—of a Washington Post opinion piece headlined “A Flu Virus Risk Worth Taking.”
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Immigration and Policy
Sterling Schuyler • 1 card
Genesis Machine: Synthetic biology will allow us to program living organisms like computers
She suggests that global Greenspeak about biodiversity, ozone depletion, etc., has erased the local from environmental concerns by suggesting that the solution can only be global.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
However, the conceptualization and larger implications of foregrounding circulatory histories over linear and bounded national or civilizational histories are yet to be elaborated, and my early chapters represent a preliminary effort in this direction.