Can drugs be good for humans?

Are you talking about drugs, as in medicinals (not recreational drugs), or gene therapy?

At the moment both are legal provided they can pass FDA and other approvals.

 

what does it have to do with solving future problems like peak oil?

 

I'm confused by your notion of "drugs." For example, there really arent any Alzheimer's drugs because we still dont even understand what Alzheimers is. At best we have a few drugs that delay the onset of Alzheimers. As for medication for ADD, that's been legal for a while with prescription.

And for "gene doping" I'm going to guess you mean some sort of gene therapy. Sadly gene therapy proved to be nowhere close to the potential envisioned in the 90s. There are tons of health risks with gene therapy and not to mention the fact that we still havent figured out how to make it a permanent modification to someone's dna.

In short all the stuff you described is legal to a certain degree and none of it provides the benefits that you are talking about.

 

We can genetically alter the DNA of welfare recipients with the fat gene (through retroviral agents impregnated in government cheese), and then render them down when they die for bio-diesel.

 

Soylent Diesel?

 

drugs can be good for humans. oh yes.

 

As long as you're not vaccinating children or anything.

 

Don't even get me started on that dumb ass whiny b**** w****. Her son's autistic so she's opposed to vaccines and if you argue with her she calls you a Mentalist and insensiti ve. What a **** load of ****, people like her are what's wrong with western civilization.

 

I was trying to figure it out.
Sounds like the 'JUST LET THEM DIE' argument.
Because the population . . . is getting out of hand.

that is my stab in the dark

Rocket River

 

How much fuel can you make per tree, and what actually goes into the, um, dieselification process? Can you pay someone to do this for you, and are you certain it will cost less than the market cost of diesel fuel itself? What kind of additives included in your current diesel fuel would you be missing out on if you just makethis homemade tallow fuel?

 

We already have the intelligence and the technical know-how to solve most of these problems - the problem is that we have very powerful and very entrenched entities who are reaping massive profits from these problems and who will do everything in their power to prevent them from being solved.

 

gattaca is a tight movie

 

People hundreds of years ago managed to make a living in the Siberian wilderness or deserts like the Sahara or Gobi. Some of their descendants still do.

To think we'll need drugs/gene therapy to live like that again is the lazy way out with a host of unintended consequences that landed us into taking the drugs in the first place.