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Honestly, we are really pretty good at playing god. Killing off a species of bee is sad and may have some unintended consequences but it hasn't put a dent in our ability to engineer the earth to suit our needs. The problem is motives and objectives. We have created the incentives to extract resources and not to protect organisms. So that's what we do.


> but it hasn't put a dent in our ability to engineer the earth to suit our needs

We'll see about that when most soil is barren and most bees are gone. That is, very shortly.




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