Daniel Pinchbeck (Part 4)

00:00A human being will take in oxygen that comes from plants and breathe out carbon dioxide that feeds the plants. It could have all been engineered to this state if we just kept moving with it along the same lines. Nature is a perfected technology. We just haven't gotten to that level yet. Which is why it was so offensive when I found out that marijuana had been made illegal because William Randolph Hearst didn't want to convert all of his paper mills, which were all made with wood paper. He didn't want to convert everything to hemp because it would cost him millions of dollars. He was in competition with this new billion dollar product. So he stepped in and used his resources to make it illegal and to stop the progress of what would

00:41have been a natural thing, would have been something that was sort of a next step, a next level thing, to move it to the place where we could eventually get to a point where everything, as you said, everything that we do, everything that we put out actually aids the environment instead of destroys it, that it could somehow or another be engineered as an ebb and flow. We're still going to have to take that step. I mean, that's going to be a conscious step.

01:05I mean, I really like... Is it possible, though? Sure. I mean, why would it not be possible? Look what we've managed to do in just such a short period of time, really. I mean, two centuries ago, we were in horse and buggies. You know, now we've arrived at this point.

01:17But I should say, is it possible to sustain this level of society without any...