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Unique nanotechnology products and processes are entering large-scale use in the environment without regulatory oversight. Materials and processes approved at conventional scales (macro or micro) do not require re-examination when used at the nanoscale even though the impact on the ecosystem – including on biodiversity – could be radically different. A recent event on First Nations’ land in New Mexico using what appears to be a nanotech self-assembly process should be a warning to government and industry.

A más de dos años de que se conoce que existe contaminación transgénica del maíz campesino en México, centro de origen del cultivo, el gobierno mexicano, no ha hecho nada constructivo para enfrentar el tema, ni para establecer responsabilidades, ni para par

The threat of Grey Goo (nanoscale mechanical robots reproducing uncontrollably) has become the itsty-bitsy boogey man, handily dismissed by industry and Nobel laureates as a technical impossibility. But they are ignoring the very real and present dangers that nanotechnologies pose, including the potential toxicity of nanoparticles and the farther-reaching implications of nanobiotechnology.

New Developments: While claiming not to have reversed their position against commercialization of Terminator seeds, some Gene Giants are continuing to seek new patents on genetic seed sterilization and others are boldly advocating in favor of GURTs (genetic use restriction technology) in intergovernmental negotiations. Stung by negative publicity related to the escape of DNA from genetically modified (GM) plants, industry continues to "greenwash" Terminator by promoting it as a biosafety tool for containing unwanted geneflow from GM plants. Biotech company Maxygen has unveiled a new technology designed to banish foreign DNA from GM plants as a way to silence critics of genetic engineering. ETC Group calls it the "Exorcist" technology.

Las preocupaciones del Príncipe Carlos de Inglaterra en torno a la revolución emergente de la nanotecnología (que el Grupo ETC prefiere nombrar tecnología atómica), llegaron a los encabezados de los tabloides con el tema de la "plaga gris"( los nanorrobots autoreplicantes fuera de control y el apocalipsis inminente), tomando primeras planas en varios diarios del mundo. Sin embargo, estos virulentos ataques contra el Príncipe tal vez sean los los útimos de una serie de erorres técnicos y tácticos que los ambiciosos promotores de la nanotecnología están cometiendo.