The best alternative to antibiotics is more antibiotics - a flood of more antibiotics, more than we could ever use up. The best way to do that is support automation and other efficiency gains and individual projects in mining the bacterial world for novel antibacterial weaponry. That used to be impractical, but now that there is, as of 2015, a way to culture the 99% of bacteria that couldn&#x27;t be cultured before, it is now very practical to look for everything we might need in biomedicine in the bacterial world. See:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edge.org&#x2F;response-detail&#x2F;26701" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edge.org&#x2F;response-detail&#x2F;26701</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-scientist.com&#x2F;?articles.view&#x2F;articleNo&#x2F;41850&#x2F;title&#x2F;New-Antibiotic-from-Soil-Bacteria&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.the-scientist.com&#x2F;?articles.view&#x2F;articleNo&#x2F;41850&#x2F;...</a>