Week 13
“..the human species is living as if it had more than one planet to occupy…”

Yes this certainly seems to be the case. One theme that seems to come up in class time and time again is the huge amount of resources consumed by the corporate military industrial complex. How we unplug that god damned thing, I don't know, but I am open to suggestions.
Our current pace is not bringing us any closer to happiness, we have become the epitome the hungry ghost, always hungry but no matter how much we eat, never satiated. Perhaps the best we can do for now is just enjoy the ride while learning to under consume :)


Nanobionics aims to give plants superpowers
Not so sure we are meant to see behind the curtain this far, despite our self fascination and self cherishing nature. I would have agree with several commentors during class conversation that this could get out of hand and averts the more pressing issue of how we must live in a more balanced way. A lecture that I heard on NPR today spoke about how we have set the earths microbial balance off kilter and may soon have to live through the re-balancing process. I don't believe we need to get so clever with how we avert the coming cataclysms, just stick to the fundamentals and follow the examples that nature has given.
That being said it is somewhat interesting to manipulate different variables and see what happens, some good could potentially come from it. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, "Plants are an engineering marvel of nature." I couldn't agree more with this, designed by the grand omnipotent emptiness and will work just fine without our tinkering.