“Should young, bright, and idealistic biotechnology students spend their summer coming up with technologies for oil companies to exploit so that they can more cleanly and efficiently pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, or should they be trying to come up with new fuels, new processes, new systems, new industries that can some day actually be good? iGEM is an inspirational experience, where you can meet hundreds of amazing students doing hundreds of amazing and creative things. Let’s not stifle their creativity and potential for change by having them try to make a fundamentally flawed and dangerous system less bad.” [by @thisischristina]
Well stated. Building bugs to keep extracting oil or cleaning up something that shouldn’t be dirtied is a complication upon a complication. And having to do so to be able to learn synthbio and to get funding gets awkward. Awkward if you have ethics, that is.
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