Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

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    17 hours ago

    I really wouldn’t call nature “hardy” when an entire ecosystem can collapse when you can take one single species out of it

    Let’s remember that nature is what produced pandas

    Though I still agree

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      What ecosystem collapses when removing a single creature? Are you talking about pre-holoscene extinction ecosystems? Or are you talking about modern ecosystems (after most of the original biodiversity has already been obliterated, and “removing one species” is actually thousands down on the list of removals)?

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      21 hours ago

      Nature is extremely resilient and adaptable. Life has survived entire mass extinctions and come back flourishing

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        20 hours ago

        Sure, nature writ large is resilient and adaptable.

        Individual species die off all the time. Sometimes for stupid reasons.

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      Fair enough. It was meant yo contrast with man’s obviously fragile solutioning on the fly.