[All] The Cost of Shrinking Biodiversity

[Peter Kofler]

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/6-problems-caused-shrinking-biodiversity.html
 
To the list of problems in the article, I would add: the irretrievable loss of at least several hundreds of millions of (and quite probably up to 3 billion) years of complex natural systems R & D and real life evolutionary experience, not to mention the potential first- and second-order synergistic complex systems effects, again, irretrievably lost. 
 
No current combination or permutation of supercomputers, lab experiments or reductive bioengineering experts can possibly simulate or recapture what is being lost despite the agribusiness/biotech sector's hubristic claims. In relative terms, we're more comparable to monkeys hammering away on pianos - while concurrently and systematically ripping out and destroying more and more of the essential keys before the composition is complete. 
 
The profit motive/capitalism alone will probably not come close to safeguarding the natural systems disrupted by our collective finagling. When and how are we going to learn this?
 		 	   		  
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