Bucky Fuller said that man-made technologies are often used by the military before being employed for humanitarian means.

Drones for tree planting is one great example of this. 

Biocarbon Engineering is a start up company that proposes using high tech drones to fire seed pods into the ground wherever wide scale clearing has been carried out.

They propose to plant entire eco-systems that can help to heal the scars that industry has left.

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