I'm OK with stuff like this.
I'd rather put the effort into just planting trees, but maybe there are some narrow use cases where this fits.
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More often than not these sorts of things overlook subtle qualities of our environment that most people are simply unaware of. For example, air/wind can carry charge, which is implicated in the growth and life cycle of most plant life...
To what extent did the manufacturers of this machine ensure that it does not disrupt such charge?
What about it's effects on ozone? etc, etc.
More often than not, after learning the hard way, the technology of trees ends up looking exquisitely coherent in it's design and implementation...
Yeah, but we'd never figure out all those little things we don't know if we never try.
partially agree. the issue is the rush to deploy it in the wild, vs taking a lower time preference and committing more time to R&D.
A lot of this stuff (e.g. gene editing) can't be put back in the box, once it escapes into the wild.