Africa: Engineering Life - the Illusion of a 'Bioeconomy'

1 December 2015
opinion

We now posses tools that are so powerful they enable us to create, recreate, resurrect and redesign life forms that evolved on earth over millions of years. Or do they? Perhaps what they really enable us to do is mess things up royally.

Awareness of the problem of climate change and recognition of its roots in capitalism and inequality has grown, but all too often, big conservationist NGOs and groups focusing on the amount of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere end up having vague and unspecified demands for "action" or "solutions". For corporations and governments with a strong interest in maintaining business as usual, those vague demands are an open invitation: new opportunities for profitmaking and political gamesmanship.

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