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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorETC Group are the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. They are dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. Diana Bronson, Hope Sh.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This three-part book 'pulls back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.'Vandana Shiva, Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology'Geopiracy' analyses how Northern governments and corporations are cynically using growing concerns about the ecological and climate crisis to propose geoengineering 'quick fixes'. These threaten to wreak havoc on ecosystems, with disastrous impacts on the people of the global South. As calls for a 'greener' economy mount and oil prices escalate, corporations are seeking to switch from oil-based to plant-based energy.'The New Biomassters' exposes how a biomass economy based on using gene technologies to reprogramme living organisms to behave as microbial factories will facilitate the liquidation of ecosystems. This constitutes a devastating assault of the peoples and cultures of the South, accelerating the wave of land grabs that are becoming common in Africa, Asia and Latin America.'Capturing Climate Genes' shows how the worlds largest agribusiness companies including Monsanto, BASF, Dupont and Syngenta are pouring billions of dollars into, and claiming patents on, what are claimed to be 'climate-ready crops'. Far from helping farmers adjust to a warming world - something peasant farmers already know how to manage - these crops will allow industrial agriculture to expand plantation monocultures into lands currently cultivated by poor peasant farmers. These crops are not a solution to growing hunger, they will feed only the gluttony of corporate shareholders for profits.…

Softcover. Zustand: sehr gut. Originalbroschur. 30 x 21cm. 25 Seiten mit zahlreichen schwarzweißen Abbildungen und Textfiguren. Mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. in englischer Sprache.

orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. Spine sloped. VG. 24x17cm, 350 pp, This is "Development Dialogue: A Journal of International Development", 1988, 1-2., completely devoted to this work. Contents: The Life Technologies: Some Facts of Life; Journey to the Centre of Life; The Homogenization of Life; The Economic Laws of Life: The Gene Revolution; Biofarms: The End of the End; Pharm-ecology; The Factory Farm; Animal Pharm; On the High Reef of the Human Dawn? The 'Clean-up' Revolution; The Political Laws of Life: The Lords of Life; On Mars & Microbes; Regulating the Super 'Natural'; Biopolicy: Ideas for Public Policy & Legislation on Biotechnology; From Cabbages to Kings? Bio-Battles at the United Nations; Toward a People-oriented Biotechnology: The Bogève Declaration; Climbing the DNA Ladder; Tomorrow Has No Fixed Address; Appendix. Minor rubbing. Spine sloped. VG.…