From Nathaniel Hellerstein
I approve of Michael Le Page’s “Turbocharge our plants” plan to introduce improved photosynthesis genes not only into our food crops, but into wild plants as well (4 October, p 26).
Of course such manipulation will leave chaos in its wake, but that’s a given. This is the Anthropocene age; we might as well get with the programme. The question is not whether we are an evolutionary catastrophe; it is how good an evolutionary catastrophe we shall be.
San Francisco, California, US
