Why Do We Keep Messing With Nature?

I would like to submit a hypothetical question: Why do we keep messing with nature, with genetics, it will inevitably be our downfall, won’t it? Surely, altering nature to suit our needs is a slippery slope?

While there is a great potential for disaster, I don’t believe that it will be our destruction. Instead, it will only lead to continuing chapters in our evolutionary history, and is likely the necessary method of adaptation to any challenges we create for ourselves. Mankind has been messing with Nature since more »

 
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  • “I love to study the many things that grow beneath the cornstalks, and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch the true color of nature. The very thought of it drives me mad.”
    ~ Andrew Wyeth
    ~ from "Andrew Wyeth", by Richard Meryman, Published 1968 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

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