| Bioengineering is the art that fuses the rigors of | | | | a huge number. Not only hunger but imagine the |
| engineering and biology to propose advancements in | | | | benefits to human health. Imagine the capability to |
| almost everything we do on earth, from fossil fuel | | | | locate and genetically manipulate the genes that |
| replacements to genetically engineering a sort of | | | | control quality of our immune system and upgrade it, |
| "super species." As one of the fastest growing fields | | | | so that so many people in the world do not die from |
| today, a career in bioengineering proposes not only a | | | | simple diseases (that we already have a cure to). As |
| stable job market, but gives individuals the ability to truly | | | | farfetched as it may seem, imagine (...just imagine) the |
| benefit the world and its inhabitants. | | | | ability to make a super human, a person stronger, |
| The cost of our yearly usage of oil, coal, and natural | | | | faster, and smarter. On another note, I believe that any |
| gas is around 1 million years' worth of organic matter | | | | political campaign pursuing bioengineering to solve our |
| converting sunlight to chemical energy as well as | | | | problems is the strongest campaign, because it takes |
| ozone depletion and climate change. Yes, there are | | | | on the Good Samaritan approach, that is, caring for our |
| several new sources of bioenergy being studied, but | | | | planet and its people. |
| they are still underdeveloped. Just to name a few, | | | | Bioengineering allows for endless improvements in |
| possible sources for fuel include the metabolic | | | | everything, especially the human body. There are |
| engineering of cyanobacteria for bioenergy production | | | | countless areas in human anatomy that can be |
| and redirecting the end products of photosynthetic | | | | advanced; bioengineering can give blind people sight |
| processes to produce hydrogen. Furthermore, there | | | | and deaf people hearing, without the use of robotics |
| are perhaps countless unknown processes waiting to | | | | and equipment (but through manipulation of the very |
| be discovered. | | | | organs that control such senses). |
| 862 million people across the world are malnourished | | | | I would definitely put my money on bioengineering as |
| where 16,000 children die from hunger a day, that's one | | | | the most useful major for young people to pursue. |
| child every 5 seconds. The problem is not the food, but | | | | Yes, there are answers to many of the world's |
| the ability to produce and provide such food. Imagine | | | | notorious problems but they are not impossible, they |
| the capability to genetically engineer "super rice" and | | | | are simply challenging to find and they can be found |
| other sorts of super food at an inexpensive cost to | | | | through bioengineering. |
| deal with this great loss and to drastically reduce such | | | | |