Environmental Biotechnology: From One Way Streets to Traffic Circles
For a biotechnologist, health is a global concept that encompasses human health, the health of animals and plants, and the health of the environment, of the climate, and of the entire planet. Environmental biotechnology supports all of this. It starts with water and microorganisms that help clean it up, continues with biogas and biofuels, goes on to bioremediation of environmental contaminants, and ends with the replacement of petroleum based chemistry by biomaterials of all kinds. In the postpetroleum world, when sustainability will become the rule of law, we will only have one choice: biotechnology.