[CRUDite]

Nature has devised molecular machinery specific to our time on this earth. Want to freeze yourself for a deep space trip? There is a creature that can do that. Want to regrow limbs? Survive like a tardigrade? Not get cancer? Everything we need is out there. Some of it will be key to the future. In some cases it took many millions of years to evolve. Vancomycin came from soil, what else lies in wait for bio-prospectors and molecule hunters? Nothing if its all dead. There should be a prime directive and it should be for life on this planet

[SturgeonsLaw]

It's truly criminal that we're potentially losing out on gamechanging biotech in order to facilitate archaic profit generating schemes like chopping down trees for lumber or digging up coal to burn.

Our future is getting mortgaged in more ways than one.