At last, a way to exterminate humanity.

So the headline reads: “Male pill: gene discovery may lead to contraceptive“.  Followed by a note that researchers in Edinburgh identified a gene critical for the production of healthy sperm.

Mmmmm.  This sounds a bit like what Monsanto did with grain –  modifying the seed genetics so that it could to reproduce. The “Terminator” gene. (They wanted to force farmers to keep buying the seed, rather than keeping grain aside to sow the next season as nature designed.)   I suppose in a dramatic doomsday scenario this could end up sterilising all men.  I hope it will be treated with the respect it deserves.  But it won’t.  The decision makers are suits after money.  They work in corporations that are insulated from the law and which don’t reproduce in the same way that humans do.

We have a poor track record.  Just yesterday there was the note about the global nuclear hazard emanating from Japan, which no one knows about.  Or, this morning, on the weather forecast lots of talk about sunshine and warmth across this region of Europe, but no mention of the drought and water shortages in the same areas where aquifers are almost exhausted and reservoirs are low.  Who knew?!