@nils_gilman Not so fast, dear fellow. New tech won't fix the same ol' Extinction Tyranny. Thomas Berry: "The human mind seems to be caught between the downward reductionism of the mechanists and the upward reductionism of the spiritualists." Hence the holistic call for a New Reformation.
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I also have complete conviction that the dominant paradigmatic axioms and assumptions which have for so long sustained the august academies of big science, education, law, business, media and otherwise, are falling fast to an emerging “new intelligence”, and with this inexorable, accelerating trend, conventional notions of authenticity, legitimacy, leadership, integrity and credibility, are shifting along with them. Times are fundamentally changing, and plant-breeding science and scientists will need to fundamentally change with them.
3/ Synthetic hybridization was *already* a plant-breeding cul-de-sac, of course. What’s new is that non-licensed, non-identifiable, GMO biotech represents a novel bio-economic strategy for privately locking away a democratic, biotic capacity to adapt coherently to climate chaos.
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Copy of Tweet and Quote Tweet: and And while we may celebrate the freedom of seed to evolve, the only ground we have in which to coherently steward such work, is deliberately and forcefully denied us by an ongoing, pernicious, toxic, global power-play increasingly embedded in the fabric of local life itself. Quote Tweet This is what we call ‘bullshit capitalism’ or, more fully illuminated, ‘integral totalitarianism.’ Here, I’m going toe-to-toe with Dr. Steve Knapp, Monsanto's Global Director of Vegetable Breeding Technology @OSU in Corvallis, OR, June 2, 2013. facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/1505157089568276/ #seedsaving