Frankenfood to the rescue? Bananas are going to be an endangered species. One scientist estimates that bananas may face extinction within ten years because they lack genetic diversity. Bananas are seedless, and so, as the article puts it, "they haven't had sex in years." Genetic engineering may now be the only way to save bananas as a species.

It's happening with increasing frequency: the over-simplified anti-scientific faction of environmentalism encounters a contradiction which it cannot resolve. Another example was on Fark a few days ago: Manatees rely on warm waters ejected from power plants. We can't let a species die out! We can't allow genetic engineering! We can't spend as much time studying as we do yelling! We can't bathe! When human activity changes the environment, it isn't inherently bad. We are part of the environment. I hate trying to be an environmentalist because I feel so outnumbered by empassioned and sadly ignorant pathological activists. They've managed to create a rediculous divide between science and environmentalism. I say ditch the "environmentalists" and keep the scientists. I see no evident purpose for the fomer.