Technology Replaces Nature
Technology replaces Nature
Gregory Stock discusses the controversial issue of germinal choice technology (GCT) in his essay, "The Enhanced and the Unenhanced." Michael Pollan alludes to a potato called the New Leaf Superior that produces its own insecticide in "Playing God in the Garden." While Pollan's essay deals with the role of biotechnology to enhance agricultural products, Stock's essay points to the ways in which technology has helped humans in their development and claims that the genetic choice technology in particular will be the next hope for humanity. After reading Pollan, my views on the unnaturalness of technology, as well as its effects on diversity, are the same as they were prior to reading his essay. I believe that genetic engineering, in general, is unnatural, will be detrimental to the natural, can possibly be very dangerous, and will ultimately destroy national diversity.
Stock argues, "We are as natural a part of the world as anything else is, and so is......
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