Now we can create blue roses, but our real talent is destruction

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-Note how the closing BANG makes reference to the opening BANG anecdote...

-an interesting anecdote/eg of how we have used science to overcome mother nature to create something that is previously impossible or non-existent....

We're farming disease-resistant livestock. We're growing unnaturally nutrient-rich crops. Someday, we might even eradicate inherited diseases from the human race. But this newfound, godly power is also profoundly disappointing: All the technological advancements in the world have been dwarfed by the pace of our expanding power to destroy.

We watch this collapse of Earth's biodiversity in slow motion, captured most presciently by the last remaining northern white rhinos - of which there are two females left ....

This is hubris. We go about our lives stretching our intellectual capacity to bend the possibilities of nature to meet our desires. And we ignore the human-made crises we inflict upon our planet because they are inconvenient to our lifestyles. Sooner or later, society will recognise all the damage we are inflicting upon our planetary paradise.