Hi Peter >Hi Keith ; > >These are ominous developments, but far worse should be expected eventually.
Yes, 'fraid so. >As we discussed before, the answer here is to treat life forms like >perpetual motion machines. In other words, you cannot get a patent >on any kind of perpetual motion machine. Similarly, you should not >be able to get a patent for any life form. And for much more pressing reasons. Well put, Peter. There's widespread and growing opposition to patenting life forms and its implications, you might almost say it's a general opposition that includes just about everybody excepting those with an interest (ie paid for), who're actually quite few, though powerful and influential. The Monsantos and Robert Zoellicks of this world aren't having it all their own way, less and less so. Especially since everything seems to be falling apart right now (no big surprise) - excepting the massive and ongoing worldwide increase of ordinary people who're finding other ways of doing things, that's not falling apart at all, it goes from strength to strength. What did Arundhati Roy say... "The only thing worth globalizing is dissent." I get her point, though I don't quite agree. Global village-type networking definitely empowers dissent (Seattle 1999, Cancun 2003, Doha in Geneva 2008), but I think there are a lot more benefits as well - it empowers people, and communities. We'll see, all in good time (I hope). All best Keith >BR >Peter G. >Thailand _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
