Industry 4.0: Gene Editing Is Pollution
 

Melanie Challenger
 

When new technologies are being developed, human imagination is often blindsighted by their revolutionary potential, leaving harms and dangers unpredicted or unnoticed until it is too late to rein them in. Now, industrial-scale biological engineering poses a similar problem. To make sure this technology stays within humane limits, we need to expand the moral circumference of what we see as pollution – i.e., to adopt an outlook that regards non-human organisms as possessing agency, dignity, and purpose.

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