Original Article by My Govt 2305 Blog
Obama proposes another stimulus plan, surprise surprise! However, it's about time that the government take global warming seriously. They have been ignoring for far too long. We knew we strongly depended on different countries for the insane amount of oil we use. We produce more pollution than any other country, excluding China which is at least three times the size of the U.S. Biologists are making huge advancements in technology and are constantly proposing new ideas. One that I found very interesting was Craig Venter. In 2005, Venter founded Synthetic Genomics, a private company with a provocative mission: to engineer new life forms. Its goal is to design, synthesize and assemble synthetic microorganisms that will produce alternative fuels, such as ethanol or hydrogen. He was one of the leading scientists that discovered how to read the entire genome of organisms. That successful research gave Venter and his team the knowledge to make computer software to create organisms. He also traveled and did research on small sea organisms like algae and bacteria. Now Venter is working on developing new bacterial strains capable of eating CO2 and producing fuels. His ultimate goal is to convert things like sugar or sunlight or carbon dioxide into fuels that people are very familiar with, like diesel fuel and gasoline. His work is ground breaking and absolutely amazing! It could very well save our planet! In the next thirty years our population will increase from 6 billion to 9 billion and we are rapidly using up the earth's resources. They have also applied this research to vaccinations. Of course, there are skeptics that believe that this research is very dangerous and there are Christians that are strongly opposed claiming that Venter is "playing God". But I bet if one of their lives or the life of their child could be saved by this break through science they would change their mind. For protection Venter has created a suicide gene that can be activated in any lab creation to kill it immediately, which would prevent someone from bio-hacking or trying to spread a "killer bug". This technology has the capability to save not only our earth but our lives.
This is the link to one of his more famous lectures!
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I some what agree with your blog in the way that new technology can change our lives and especially our children's lives in the future. At what expense though do we just stop trying new things or mixing bacteria to eat carbon monoxide because our Hummers and Escalades are doing what we made them do. I might sound wrong but what if all these new ways and inventions toward fixing our pollution and global warming, makes things worse. I don't hate on tree huggers but sometimes people should stick to hugging trees than inventing new synthetic trees. Trees are what filter carbon monoxide maybe all we need is more trees, did you ever think of that. Just because the new green movement is in now as a fashion statement doesn't mean people will still be into it five or ten years down the line, what then when being green starts being a fad and in the past.?
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