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NYU Professor Wants to Make Humans Greener: Human engineering as a solution to global warming
National Review ^ | 07/25/2014 | Molly Wharton

Posted on 07/25/2014 8:19:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A New York University professor has a revolutionary idea for combating global warming: making ourselves greener.

Matthew Liao, director of NYU’s bioethics program, thinks that human engineering is a possible solution to global warming, and he lays out his ideas in a new paper. While previous environmental efforts have been focused on reducing the carbon emissions that are said to be causing global warming, Liao says we should look to changing ourselves.

“We tried to think outside the box,” Liao told BBC News. “What hasn’t been suggested with respect to addressing climate change?”

One of his ideas is to artificially induce intolerance to red meat. If people dislike the taste, Liao says, there will be reduced demand for meat and therefore a reduced environmental impact, as 18 percent of greenhouse emissions come from livestock farming. The paper suggests people take a pill that would trigger nausea if they ingest meat, which would lead to a long-term aversion to meat.

Liao explained in an interview with The Atlantic that he and his colleagues have also “toyed with the idea” of a patch, similar to a nicotine patch, which will make its user sick if he or she tries to eat a juicy burger. He argues that such a patch would be “liberty enhancing.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; humans; nyu
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1 posted on 07/25/2014 8:19:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

and Birth Control is the First step ?


2 posted on 07/25/2014 8:21:23 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Hulk was green but that was not good form most.


3 posted on 07/25/2014 8:21:54 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Human genetic engineering. What possibly could go wrong...?


4 posted on 07/25/2014 8:22:24 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: mountainlion
The Hulk was green

5 posted on 07/25/2014 8:25:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sieg Heil, Herr Professor!


6 posted on 07/25/2014 8:27:09 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: SeekAndFind

He doesn’t have the common sense God gave a slug.


7 posted on 07/25/2014 8:28:07 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: SeekAndFind

Seppuku, Matthew Liao.

Seppuku.

You’ll feel much better, and certainly be much greener, after you’ve finished.


8 posted on 07/25/2014 8:28:48 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: SeekAndFind
The easiest way to make humans "greener" is to kill them.

That will be the ultimate method.

We're just in the "pretend it's not" stage right now.

9 posted on 07/25/2014 8:29:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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Liao explained in an interview with The Atlantic that he and his colleagues have also “toyed with the idea” of a patch, similar to a nicotine patch, which will make its user sick if he or she tries to eat a juicy burger.

No need, by the time Obama is done with our economy, only the elites will be able to afford beef anyway.

He argues that such a patch would be “liberty enhancing.”

Truly Orwellian.

10 posted on 07/25/2014 8:29:48 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Hey prof! - You know what you can do with this...


11 posted on 07/25/2014 8:30:23 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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only the elites will be able to afford beef anyway

Entirely the goal of destroying the economy.

12 posted on 07/25/2014 8:31:53 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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13 posted on 07/25/2014 8:33:55 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: molson209

Birth control for all DemonRats. Maybe providing contraception to them at universities wouldn’t be such a bad idea after all.


14 posted on 07/25/2014 8:34:50 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: SeekAndFind
A Beano gland in cattle and all other mammals?
15 posted on 07/25/2014 8:35:45 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They could use GM to create a smaller human race. Making the average human 2 feet tall and perhaps 80 pounds would use up a lot less of the earth precious resources. Weren’t Hobbits ecofriendly?

CC


16 posted on 07/25/2014 8:35:55 AM PDT by Captain Compassion
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NYU Professor Wants to Make Humans Greener
17 posted on 07/25/2014 8:37:27 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Ok! That would make a “person of color”, and I’d get benefits! ;)


18 posted on 07/25/2014 8:37:36 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: SeekAndFind
such a patch would be “liberty enhancing.”

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
19 posted on 07/25/2014 8:38:57 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Surf music is the naked truth)
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To: fhayek

Well they’re already tring to produce “all genders” in the labs that can F themselves and reproduce ... for the gay population of course. And the libs would love to have cerebral cybernetic enhancements by having implants buried in their skulls (I guess they don’t realize that there might be a trojan horse embedded for behavior modification and punishment if you don’t comply with what the robotic NWO officer tells you to do. These guys are the type that are stupid enough to think they can make people become X-men with a chip slipped into their skull that will give them super powers like super strength and the ability to fly. Geez....


20 posted on 07/25/2014 8:44:45 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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