#6: Geoengineering in the Global South
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Interview with Silvia Ribeiro
In episode #6, we speak with ETC Group's Latin America Director, Silvia Ribeiro, about geoengineering and the Global South. Silvia has been working on geoengineering issues for 13 years, ad was at the UN negotiations that passed the global moratorium on deployment in 2010.
Nobel Prize for a gene bomb
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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to researchers who developed the genetic engineering technique CRISPR-Cas9 – , some of which applications could have such an explosive effect on nature and people that it has been called a “gene bomb”.
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#WorldFoodDay2020
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Who will control food and farming by the end of the decade?
Driven to Extinction
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Bill Gates and Gene Drive Extinction Technology
As part of our contribution to a new Global Citizen’s Report ‘Gates to a Global Empire’, we explore the way in which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is forcing dangerous gene drive technologies onto the world. BMGF is either the first or second largest funder of gene drive research (alongside the shadowy U.S. military organisation Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) whose exact level of investment is disputed).
The Sugar Daddy of Geoengineering
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Bill Gates’ fossil fuel interests and funding for global climate engineering
ETC Group contributes to a new Global Citizen’s Report ‘Gates to a Global Empire’ which explores the many ways in which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wield immense influence across the globe, driving a form of “techno-solutionism” that prioritizes corporate power and profit and ignores over strengthening communities and sustainable solutions. Here we examine Bill Gates’ well-known promotion and funding of untested and potentially devastating geoengineering technologies, which provide cover for his less-known financial investments in fossil fuel technologies.
#5: Algorithmic Colonisation with Abeba Birhane
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Is there such a thing as "ethical AI"?
In this podcast episode, ETC Group speaks to Abeba Birhane, a PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science. Birhane talks about her work on the algorithmic colonisation of Africa, why we need to normalise critical thinking on new technologies and if there is such a thing as “ethical" AI.
Podcast #4: What is Technology?
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And why do we need technology assessment? An interview with Jim Thomas
Celebrating the Life of Sven Hamrell
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Groundbreaking thinker, President of RAFI and ETC Group boards
The staff and board of ETC Group are saddened to learn of the passing of Sven Hamrell, aged 92, on July 2nd 2020. Sven was long-term former Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) in Uppsala Sweden and "President for Life" of RAFI (the former name of ETC Group). He left a huge imprint on the shape and thinking of global civil society and on RAFI/ETC Group in particular.
Breeding the Next Pandemic
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The following is a translation of an article that appeared in La Jornada
by Silvia Ribeiro
The COVID pandemic has caused the many veils concealing the perverse workings of the global capitalist system to be lifted. One of the veils that has been torn apart, exposing a stinking reality, is the role of the agro-industrial food system, which has been the main factor in the creation of epidemics in recent decades.
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