Q. Are we smarter than evolution? A: We're pinheads now!

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“Gone are the days when life was shaped exclusively by the plodding forces of evolution. We are standing on the cusp of a new area, one in which we will have primary authority over life’s makeup and all its vibrant and varied outputs. Indeed, we are already supplanting the deaf, dumb, and blind system that has shaped genetic material on our planet for eons and replacing it with a conscious, intentional system of human-directed evolution.”
(Jennifer A. Doudna, biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, developer of a method for genome editing.)

Really? Are we smarter than evolution? Do we seriously want to allow profit-oriented Agribusiness corporations to become the “primary authority over life’s makeup”? You have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to realize that an evolution driven by profit interests cannot be in the interest of the planet's ecosystems.

Perhaps we would do better to listen to the wise words of Aurelio Peccei, founder and first president of the Club of Rome: „The present global crisis, in which everything in the human system seems to be out of balance with practically everything else, is a direct consequence of man’s inability to rise to the level of understanding and responsibility demanded by his new power role in the world. The problem is within men, not outside him, and so is any possible solution.“

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