Hank Campbellin synkkä ja syyllistävä näkemys:
Viewpoint: Science colonialism — Europe and the United Nations are blocking crop biotechnology poised to address global hungerWealthy countries with natural ‘breadbaskets’ – places where it is easy to grow food – have so much abundance they can put special labels like ‘organic’ on tens of thousands of products and charge more and people will spend $100 billion on them.
Other countries need science, yet it is often the case that regions like Europe dictate what science poorer nations can use. Disagree, and you cannot sell in Europe. Then they mobilize relief efforts for the countries they keep poor.
When poor people are geopolitical pawns for rich ones, can hunger ever be eliminated?
Not at all. If Europe would end its Science Colonialism toward African and Asian developing nations, for example, they could easily feed themselves. Instead, Europe subsidizes its own food so it can compete in those countries while telling local farmers they have to use products European environmentalists and their allies like – or else.
YK:n roolia tuossa täytyisi ehkä vielä työstää. Mutta voisi ehkä sanoa, että sen syyllisyys on asiaintilan passiivisessa hyväksymisessä.
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Zion Lights "säestää" Campbellia:
Viewpoint: Organic mirage: The poor are paying the price for the backlash against agrochemicals and crop biotechnology
