In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.
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I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.
We can create new food substances.
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
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