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ETC group (formerly RAFI - Rural Advancement Foundation International) is an international organization dedicated to countering the problems they see in Erosion, Technology and Concentration.
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Erosion
Erosion includes not only genetic erosion and the erosion of species, soils, and the atmosphere, but also the erosion of knowledge and the global erosion in equitable relations. We are losing both our biological resources and our eco-specific knowledge of those resources.
from their website
Technology
Nanotechnology, which refers to molecular or atomic engineering of both living and non-living resources, has the potential to vitiate the relevance of biomaterials (for those in power) on the assumption that the world's needs can be met through an infinite supply of self-assembling materials. From our perspective, these technologies have "advanced" by way of sequential declensions from seeds to genes to atoms.
from their website
Concentration
Concentration describes the re-organization of economic power into the hands of high-tech global oligopolies. The interplay between vanishing bioresources, life-dominating new technologies, and the emergence of ever more powerful concentrations of economic control is driving social and political change.
from their website
Concentration is used in the standard sense of the Concentration of wealth and power. Less clear is their take on molecular nanotechnology is less clear. A cartoonby Reymond Page visible on their website on 14, 2004 shows a gameshow host asking contestants, "The answer is Nanotechnology. What is the question?" [1] (http://www.etcgroup.org/largecartoon.asp?img=cartoon73.jpg) The question, according to the Foresight Institute's founder K. Eric Drexler, would be every question ETC Group has asked. Molecular Nanotechnology offers an answer to the problems of erosion, technology, and concentration.
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External links
- ETC group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration (http://www.etcgroup.org)
- ETC Group :: Commitment to People, the Environment & Equity (http://www.etc-international.org/) International