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<DIV dir=ltr><A href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/6-problems-caused-shrinking-biodiversity.html">http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/6-problems-caused-shrinking-biodiversity.html</A><BR> <BR>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. <BR> <BR>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. <BR> <BR>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?<BR></DIV></DIV> </div></body>
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