Organic farming is less efficient and makes more CO2, why is it important?
Imagine a genetically engineered super-weed which no known herbicide can kill, now imagine it's used as a weapon.
Diversity is #antifragile
As explained before, it doesn't work this way.
@kravietz
I think we're probably going to see it work this way, in our lifetimes...
@cjd No, I mean genetic doesn't work this way. There are cultured plants - either by selection, mutation breeding or CRISPR - and there are plants that evolved in the wild. The former just don't survive in the wild - not because of some engineered terminator genes, but because they are *not fit.* Potatoes or carrots don't really need these massive roots for themselves, it's *us* who need them, and when you leave them in the wild uncultivated they will regress to feral, or disappear completely.
@kravietz
I'm not talking about GMO with good intentions, you know my opinion is that it's dangerous but is a bridge we need to cross.
what I'm talking about is a military creating weaponized crabgrass.
This topic has been discussed a lot, here's a good article:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-crispr-biological-weapon.html
There are threats which even though they have weapon potential are not used anyway.
There was tons of FUD from Greenpeace about terrorists blowing up nuclear power plant for decades. In reality the only person who ever did that was Green activist idiot, Chaim Nissim, who shot reactor in construction from an RPG to demonstrate the threat is real. He didn't even scratch it, and nobody ever repeated it.
@kravietz
So it's too expensive for terrorists (so far) and nation-state actors all agree never to do it.
Problem is, everybody agrees never to do everything, until the moment it has a chance to change the outcome of a war.
If there's a WW3 it's almost certain to be biological + cyber.
So the only party who *could* be theoretically interested in chemical of bio warfare, or dirty bombs, are terrorists because as the story goes they are just crazy and don't care for life.
But they don't and never did, except for one attack with sarin by Japanese sect Aum Shinrikyo. There can be many reasons for that but in general terrorists do have clear friend-or-foe definition so an indiscriminate weapon with "global* potential isn't an option as it would hit their friends.
