[Greenbuilding] Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans?

[Reuben Deumling]

Anything to avoid changing behavior, right?!

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM, sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

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> http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/12/2032242/solving-climate-change-by-bioengineering-humans
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> *"Forget CFLs, hybrid cars, and organic jeans. Buying our way out of
> climate change — even if it's green consumption — won't get us far. A new
> paper<http://www.smatthewliao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/HEandClimateChange.pdf>(PDF), published in Ethics,
> Policy, and the Environment by NYU bioethics professor S. Matthew Liao,
> poses an answer: engineer humans to use less<http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/12/is-bioengineering-more-efficient-humans-the-solution-to-climate-change--2>.
> The general plan laid out by Liao is straightforward, ranging from using
> pharmacological behavior modification to create an aversion to meat in
> people, to using gene therapy to create smaller, less resource-intensive
> children. The philosophical and ethical questions, on the other hand, are
> absurdly complicated. The Atlantic also has a great interview with Liao, in
> which he talks about gene therapy and making humans hate the taste of meat<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/how-human-engineering-could-be-the-solution-to-climate-change/253981/>
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