Sex change wipes out invasive species

[LostInTime]

Nature
'Trojan chromosomes' enlisted in battle against alien invaders.
Louis Buckley

Gender-bending chemicals could provide a new way to combat invasive species, say researchers. Originally conceived as a cure for the enormous populations of Asian carp and tilapia plaguing the Mississippi River, scientists now think the approach could be used to battle unwelcome crustaceans, molluscs, fish, amphibians and reptiles around the world.


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Makes me think of:

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure."

[Jolene4ever]

Who is the "we" in we are the cure?

[RebeccaFog]

Who is the "we" in we are the cure?

It sounds so familiar, but I'm not getting it either.   

[Lisbeth]

Who is the "we" in we are the cure?

The machines. 

Instead it reminds me of a quote from Jurassic Park.  As Malcolm said to Hammond about his cleverness at only allowing the female dynosaurs to develop: "Nature will find a way."

[Hazumu]

Another favourite line:

I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

We had someone in our unit in Bosnia who would imitate Agent Smith saying, "It's the smell!" at incongruous moments.  It caught on pretty bad... 

The deeper meaning of The Matrix was not lost on us, either...

Karen

[Thundra]

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure."

I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

God I love those movies. I love the dialogue, and Hugo Weaving is incredible as Smith.

But, it does remind me of the recurrent theme of science fiction from my youth. That science, altho good, can be used by unscrupulous humans to do horrible things to each other and the planet. Every week seems to bring out some awful news on the science front, of nasty things we have done, or created by accident. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Our only hope is that the planet's eco-system is so huge that we cannot completely destroy it. It would be one thing to eradicate our own species, but quite another to wipe out life as we know it on the planet.