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BEDE documents and disseminates information on peasant farmer innovations relevant to the development of sustainable agriculture and the food sovereignty of rural communities.
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'BANG', Sciences and Society Forum:
Report
From What Next? to What If?
toward a global CSO response to structural and technological convergence
The Documentary film (DVD) "The Silence of Nanos" by Julien Colin is available here
A Brief Report from a global civil society strategy meeting
to the World Social Forum and invitation to join the What Next? Process
Extract: "BANG - you're dead! The Massively-Destructive Individual. In the nano-world of quantum effects — where standard dental compounds can ignite bombs and carbon soot can blow up airplanes and children can build self-replicating species the way their parents used to build lego — bio-error is a greater threat than bioterror and anyone might use almost anything to become a massively-destructive individual. The threats posed by the new technologies give governments the opportunity to impose new social controls. The potential offered by molecular self-assembly will be a tremendously attractive response to raw materials and energy shortages and allow a focus away from tackling root causes — and impose new risks."
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