GE CLST M71A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Class Conflict, Proletariat, Neocolonialism
9 Nov 2016
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Lecture notes: biotech and its discontents: ownership and sovereignty in agriculture. Economic control, farmers" freedom and viability, food sovereignty. Either fewer chemicals or able to use otherwise unavailable chemicals. Crops that are more resilient (to drought, salinity, etc. ) Necessity for feeding a hungry world w/ a growing population more efficiently. Patent protections necessary to secure profitability and therefore innovation. Ideology of technology (flawed?) tech is neutral, uses are political tech is inexorable (truth), its progress inevitable tech progress social and econ development tech should be judged in terms of its efficiency. Shiva: underdevelopment is commonly projected as a state created by the absence of modern western science and technology systems. Shiva: poverty and underdevelopment are, more often than not, conditions created by the externalized and invisible costs of the resource intensive and resource destructive technological processes which support the livelihood of millions. Development in one place cost somewhere else.
