<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/03/12/2032242/solving-climate-change-by-bioengineering-humans</div><div><br></div><div><i>"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 <a href="http://www.smatthewliao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/HEandClimateChange.pdf">new paper</a> (PDF), published in <em>Ethics, Policy, and the Environment</em> by NYU bioethics professor S. Matthew Liao, poses an answer: <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/12/is-bioengineering-more-efficient-humans-the-solution-to-climate-change--2">engineer humans to use less</a>.
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 <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/how-human-engineering-could-be-the-solution-to-climate-change/253981/">gene therapy and making humans hate the taste of meat</a>."</i></div></div></body></html>