Week 7

In this week's session of TWC, the topic discussed bioBusiness revolution: Agribiology, Environmental Life Sciences and Industrial Biotechnology(Past,Present and Future). Since the topic was regarding environmental life sciences, we watched a video that depicted humans as pests(fleas), living and leeching of earth's resources. It also showed that humans were insatiable and were also exploring the possibilities of exploiting resources of other planets. This scenario seems rather true at least for a few years back. Some years back when humans were not so environmentally friendly, i guess we could really be classified as pests(to earth, in the large and larger pictures) but now, we are becoming more environmentally friendly as we become more aware of the environment and the damage that we are doing to earth.

Also, as technology advances and the knowledge of the land and seeds becomes more complex(the idea of learning more and finding out you know less of the world and wanting to learn more again). Farmers are no longer just farming ignorantly. Farmers now have to calculate different things to ensure the best harvest that he can have. Mixing seeds that repel pests with seeds of crops with high yield, is just a part of what they are required to do now. With this comes the idea of farmers no longer just being a manual labour farming, but becoming specialists - "Farmists".

I rate this session of TWC a 7.5 out of 10 as it relates more closely to our current lives and the topics discussed were more at heart:)