posted on 2008-04-16, 00:00authored byEdouard Louis Crago
My work is about the fear of the unknown capabilities of biological sciences, specifically Genetics. I am not anti-science. I am pro-caution. The leaps of technology we are making in Genetics present a frightening parallel to the leaps we made in nuclear sciences that led to the development of nuclear weapons. We created weapons, and now we have a road ahead of us that could lead us down that same path. We are replacing the womb with a test tube, and approaching a very steep precipice that may lead us to disaster. We now have large portions of our food stores that are genetically modified, and we have specifically bred pets for millennia. Now is the time to be aware of what we are doing. We must ask the question: should we do this, versus can we do this? We must advocate caution, or we truly face the End Of Nature.