> I think that looking at the GM plant business from the point of view 
> of
> 'doom' or 'end of the world' is wrong.


Note my Doom, doom ... :-)

always has a :-) at the end.
It's the call of the great drum as Durrins' bane comes to do battle 
with Gandalf.
FWIW Jackson's Balrog was visually pathetic - far below the rest of 
his LOTR interpretations which were mostly rather good (as always IMHO 
of course).

BUT - you are wrong.
The whole of GM *MUST* be looked at from that pount of view.
Failure to do so simply innures people to what we are dealing with.
GM has it's place, but it's in the "Resident Evil" (movie) type 
research facility for 50 odd years with the whole world putting in the 
100 trillion $ or so needed to really make it work well and understand 
it. It's job is to break out and we are currently its willing 
handmaidens :-)


> Probabilities are best for
> something along the lines of red algae, kudzu, or that other dog 
> problem
> in Australia occuring again in a different way. Having really 
> stubborn
> weeds that infest cultivable land would be close enough.

All more probably whan WCD.But WCD must be what we look at.

WCD = Worst.Case.Disaster

Doom, doom ... !!! :-)

        RM



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