I think biotech is the form of corporate science that's most likely to cause planetary destruction. There's no way to check and safeguard their products. It will be molecular level pollution that potentially takes out entire species or pollutes entire continental ecosystems with corporate trash, really so some assholes can make money.
We're right at the boundary of fight-for-our-lives time. It seems extremely hard to believe. I barely believe it myself, but it's extremely obvious, unfortunately.
Some company is about to release GMO mosquitoes... Why? Who knows. I guess it's an attempt at "pest control" instead of spraying, which also has problems... Anyway, I don't know if that particular experiment is going to cause a problem, but that general category of "products" is 100% certain to. There is no way for companies to test a billion mosquitoes or bacteria, or to test the interaction of their shitty GMO crap with other natural organisms. It's a risk they will take, but will not be able to correct if it's actually a problem.
The vaccines for covid are really similar. It's a minimum upside/unknown potentially mega-destructive downside. Nuclear power is the same. Nuclear weapons were the same. Some tiny fraction of humanity benefits from these potentially mega-devastating inventions or products while the entire planet unwittingly takes on the risk.
There are many examples of corporate malfeasance of this kind. DuPont's production of teflon "C8" is just one of myriad similar cases. The company produced a toxic substance and put it on cookware, dumped waste in the Ohio river, etc... What happened? Not much. Some fines or some shit, but that's it.and lawsuits, but that's it.
Corporate america and its management and executives are all but unaccountable.
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