one of the most depressing articles yet to appear at ET, congrats technoP -- and I thought I was depressing...

Thank you. I could probably do another article or two on other topics that might be contenders, if you're not depressed enough by this one.

(BTW, Parachuting Cats into Borneo deserves a link. I'd never heard of these heroic beasts.)
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it's time to junk the whole model of "engineering the planet," imho, and learn some biomimicry skills.  instead of treating biota like machinery, learn to make machinery that works like biota....

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