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The science represented in PHARMA is plausible. In some of the world’s most remote (and classified) laboratories, man-eating plants have already been developed. While eco-activists, politicians and a concerned public focus on the “green” agenda (reforesting the Amazon, reducing carbon emissions, etc.), some of the smartest minds today are secretly working to give Mother Earth a fighting chance. Whose side are they on?
Genetics engineering is a wonderful and terrifying tool. What if a tree took only four days to grow forty feet? What if vines could spread as fast as you can walk? Why trim your hedge when you can reformat its shape and color from your computer? Why worry about the ozone if we can grow forests that can cover the state of Kansas in a matter of weeks?
Plant life has been a slave to man for eons. Of course, history shows us that the oppressed do not remain enslaved for very long. It’s happening already (see below). In PHARMA, we see how such a revolution could be seeded and cultivated. Are scientists giving our green friends an unfair advantage? Is another punctuational change on the horizon?
Below I’ll post articles relevant to the question. Please add yours to the blog. We’d like to know what you’re seeing out there. What’s growing under your house?
The following article was posted by my friend Frank Gerber on his remarkably informative website www.franklygreen.com on February 26, 2007:
Antarctic Ice Melt Reveals Exotic Creatures
• For first time scientists have been able to catalog wildlife beneath two ice shelves
• Hundreds of specimens collected, including possibly new species
• Global warming blamed for the ice shelves’ demise, scientists say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ice, scientists reported Sunday.
This is the first time explorers have been able to catalog wildlife where two mammoth ice shelves used to extend for some 3,900 square miles over the Weddell Sea.
At least 5,000 years old, the ice shelves collapsed in two stages over the last dozen years. One crumbled 12 years ago and the other followed in 2002.
Global warming is seen as the culprit behind the ice shelves’ demise, said Gauthier Chapelle of the Polar Foundation in Brussels
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