\"A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.\" <\/p>\n
Its the opening passage to Aldous Huxleys classic sci-fi novel Brave New World, but are human hatcheries and genetic tampering about to become a reality?<\/p>\n
Not quite.<\/p>\n
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, philosophers in Oxford and New York are suggesting that the problems of climate change could be tackled with human engineering.<\/p>\n
Matthew Liao of New York University and Anders Sandberg and Rebecca Roache of Oxford University have written a paper in which they recommend that human beings could be made smaller, modified to enjoy eating meat less and given cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting.<\/p>\n
Environmentalist Bill McKibben tweeted in response that the paper had the worst climate-change solutions of all time.<\/p>\n
According to the SMH, the papers authors are unfazed. They argue that if people are willing to consider really dangerous solutions such as space-mirrors, then human engineering should also be considered as an option.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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