Dear Professor Doudna,
It's
surreal to me that an individual like yourself can alter the entire
world so there is no escape - no where to run - no where to hide for the
other 7-8 billion of us - never mind all the other millions of innocent
conscious creatures that inhabit the earth.You and your co-inventor of the CRISPR technique have become part of a very small club of science inventors who have created things that can destroy human kind and all of nature as we know it. Einstein, Oppenheimer, Haber and a few others are part of this small infamous group of irresponsible and immature, myopic human scientists. Yet both of you will probably win the Noble prize in time - which shows where our mixed up values are at as a myopic tech based secular society.
Einstein's
theories and Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project allowed for the splitting
of the atom and unleashing it's potential destructive abilities in the
form of nuclear bombs. With Hitler's rising and his own great scientists
working on it - it's somewhat understandable. But even Nuclear energy
turned out to be a bummer with radioactive waste nobody wants in their
backyard and today it still leaks and poisons the Pacific Ocean (&
us via toxic radiated seafood etc.) in Fukushima, Japan post-disaster 5
years ago. This nuclear threat and the universal sub-conscious stress it
causes will always hang over humanity like the sword of Damocles. No
good has come from the splitting the atom and please do not use the less
CO2 argument - though true - yet if we had switched to solar, wind and
other renewables 50 years ago - the world would be a much better,
healthier place - but the evil fossil fuel corporations will not allow
us to progress (as Big Pharma will pervert and control CRISPR soon
enough) at the peril of all humanity's healthy future - including their
own families = insanity - because they knew all along as Exxon's own
scientists informed them of impending Global Warming crisis 35 years ago
- and this will end up in Supreme Court and or a congressional hearings
case in due course but justice may be too late, unfortunately for the
world. Radiation treatment for cancer patients is another argument but
at least 80% of cancers would not exist if not for the reckless,
speeding ahead, dirty, toxic technology of the Industrial revolution
causing it in the first place.
We as a society spend more time and resources on cures rather than examining and eliminating the root causes of disease because it would mess with greedy corporate profit margins. The sickness of growth by any means necessary, which is our capitalistic economic model - is no longer sustainable or desirable.
We as a society spend more time and resources on cures rather than examining and eliminating the root causes of disease because it would mess with greedy corporate profit margins. The sickness of growth by any means necessary, which is our capitalistic economic model - is no longer sustainable or desirable.
After reading the insane title and excerpts from your book - Cracking in Creation - Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
- I am glad I have no children and will be dead by the time your evil
invention starts to negatively affect the quality of life for all
creatures on earth in a foreseeable Ice-9 (Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut)
nightmare scenario. Not if, but when, as with all human hubris.
I
often wonder about what motivates people like you. You overly ambitious
to a fault, super inflated ego types always claim how you want to help
people avoid diseases and make life better but this never plays out in
the bigger picture over time. The earth has evolved to where it is over 4
billion years with a super delicate, hyper-complex, interconnected
ecosystem and yet to scientists like you it is like a playground for you
to alter and destroy as you wish - basically playing God.
Another scary, insane quote - "It won't be long before CRISPR allows us to bend nature to our will the way humans have dreamed of since pre-history" - Please do not speak for all humans Professor! Billions of us do not think like this nor have our ancestors! Only grandiose, insane, control freaks have this thought construct. You are what Mary Shelly wrote about in her Dr. Frankenstein story - seemingly good intention, hyper-intelligent people who are basically out of control and the horrible consequences the rest of us ordinary common sense folks have to deal with in the wake of their evil creations.
Why do you disrespect Mother Nature so much? Did your Mother not give you enough tactile affection when you were a child? Do you have any fond memories of nature? Do you respect the beauty and majesty of nature at all or merely see it as a nuisance needing taming? Obviously this is the case based on the title of your book. You are a part of the arrogant, Euro-centric, post-Enlightenment science-is-our-saviour believers who worship at the secular temple (i.e - cold white sterile lab).
Another scary, insane quote - "It won't be long before CRISPR allows us to bend nature to our will the way humans have dreamed of since pre-history" - Please do not speak for all humans Professor! Billions of us do not think like this nor have our ancestors! Only grandiose, insane, control freaks have this thought construct. You are what Mary Shelly wrote about in her Dr. Frankenstein story - seemingly good intention, hyper-intelligent people who are basically out of control and the horrible consequences the rest of us ordinary common sense folks have to deal with in the wake of their evil creations.
Why do you disrespect Mother Nature so much? Did your Mother not give you enough tactile affection when you were a child? Do you have any fond memories of nature? Do you respect the beauty and majesty of nature at all or merely see it as a nuisance needing taming? Obviously this is the case based on the title of your book. You are a part of the arrogant, Euro-centric, post-Enlightenment science-is-our-saviour believers who worship at the secular temple (i.e - cold white sterile lab).
To
me, people like you are way more dangerous than the most wanted
terrorists in the world. They can only negatively affect thousands - and
over time they will disappear or die and nature and people will recover
- but as you say yourself, your CRISPR technology has the evil power of
altering all of nature forever - for better and worse and the worse
will surely outweigh the better as our brief and myopic history of irresponsible science and innovation has already shown in a short blink of time (2 hundred years vs 2-300,000) in our human evolution story.
Since
you live and work near fantastic nature on the West Coast - I suggest
you go for a walk at Big Sur and walk among the great Sequoias and try
hard to commune with nature - meditate under the trees and feel their
energy and living consciousness (see PBS link doc). I pray you spend the
rest of your life alerting people to the dangers of what you have
created - as did Guilt ridden Einstein and Oppenheimer in regards to
Nuclear proliferation. Most uninformed sheeple
can't be bothered (average citizens) and won't even care until it
disrupts their quality of life, which it surely will sooner than later.
I
am not anti-science - but I am a Luddite because technology is
recklessly racing ahead on all fronts and we humans still have a
primitive and violent fear based Paleolithic cave man core mind set -
not a good mix - at all! We need to put the breaks on all technologies
and allow our better angel consciousness levels catch up - naturally -
which means it will take a while, the way nature aka God intended it to
flow. I am pretty sure you are an atheist and I feel sorry for you. God Bless this Mess!
Sincerely,
Christopher Jones
Concerned Human
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