To a healthier future

Woo Suk Hwang, a stem cell scientist at Seoul National University in South Korea, announced last week that he and his team had created 11 human stem-cell lines perfectly matched to the DNA of human patients.

What this means is the using this technique, which built on the Dolly-the-sheep technique, will take doctors closer to creating custom stem cell treatments for a variety of diseases.

This is almost a "found the fountain of youth" kind of revelation. What this could mean is that there may eventually be a future where there is no diseases. People will live to an age where the only reason they die is because they want to.

Which brings me to another point. We spend so much time over conditions that directly affect human conditions, but we dont spend anywhere close to that time thinking about whether our planet is geared to handle so many people.

Imagine the amount of food that will be required. The oxygen consumption for the planet will go up exponentially. Consequently, how many more rainforests & treeswill we need to achieve this.

Does our civilisation have the discipline to take care of our planet & nurture it so that it can then present it's bounty to us as a progressive civilisation?

I don't think we are doing our bit for our planet. We keep looking in one direction & forget that there is a whole world around us to look at.

As a race, we are fairly blind-sighted.