"Technology under Peoples' control: A participatory vision for Biodiversity"
Technofixes ignore the root causes of our problems and, if implemented, would exacerbate biodiversity loss and undermine people’s basic rights.
Some of the world’s most powerful corporations and governments are planning a global future dominated by quick techno-fixes. -examples for techno-fixes include geoengineering, some of which are labeled under the rubric or mistakenly called "nature-based solutions”, and new forms of genetic engineering, such as exterminator genes that cause "genetic forcing" or "gene drives".
These technofixes ignore the root causes of problems and if implemented, would exacerbate biodiversity loss and undermine people’s basic rights. We must organize to re-imagine the place of techno-capitalism in our societies and ecosystems in a way that defends our planet's delicate web of life.
Drawing on the experiences of peasants, Indigenous peoples and others who have expertise through their life experience, we explored in a webinar how participatory processes of technology assessment can help bring technology under people’s control.
Watch the webinar that reviews the prospects for such processes being adopted by popular social movements, beginning at the local scale to the larger scales, in order to influence international governance processes, such as the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework.
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Find the presentations here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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