Toward Ecosophy

This reminds me about the controversy about GMOs, for instance (I hope this isn't off-topic, as it is a hotly debated topic and concerns the very prestige of institutional science itself). Even if one were to take a neutral perspective (which I personally don't) and try avoiding taking the side of either the pro-GMO or the anti-GMO side, I believe a strong case can be made about exercising extreme caution regarding these. I mean, we have not more than 50 plant genomes in total mapped and sequenced, but not even one of them is properly understood, i.e. there is a glaring lack of mechanistic models to explain the interactions of the genes of the tomato plant, for example. Given that the genome of any organism is a complex, nonlinear and self-regulating system, should we not take extreme precaution before we try to play around with it, much more than we would when trying to play around with the design of a pump, for example? At the very least, one could do worse than to make an informed decision regarding the same. Unfortunately, the officially approved people simply don't care...