Thank you for highlighting this. There are reasons why European countries are hesitant to adopt GMO technologies blindly in the name of progress.
Ecology is nonlinear.
Yet there are people in this discussion who are still advocating for the eradication of entire species of insects, based on the idea that they spread disease. Do they not see that gene drives are themselves essentially just powerful diseases? Who says they couldn't hop the species line? This is straight up foolishness.
Us humans can't even moderate our glorified communications platforms (social media, TV, etc). What makes people so confident that our corporations are ready to test technologies like this out on planet earth itself?
Ecology is nonlinear.
Yet there are people in this discussion who are still advocating for the eradication of entire species of insects, based on the idea that they spread disease. Do they not see that gene drives are themselves essentially just powerful diseases? Who says they couldn't hop the species line? This is straight up foolishness.
Us humans can't even moderate our glorified communications platforms (social media, TV, etc). What makes people so confident that our corporations are ready to test technologies like this out on planet earth itself?