NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Precautionary Principle, Cognitive Map, Naturalistic Fallacy
28 Nov 2013
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Ge and not people economic issues; property; unintended consequences; Framing: debates over gmos not purely technical. Risk and uncertainty very closely linked and feed off each other. To associate natural with good is a fallacy. Yuk factor (closer to humans the more controversial), monoculture/polycultural agriculture (), tina (there is no alternative) Promotion of ge often relies on kleinmanns progressivism if your against it your against progress: monoculture agriculture (imo, the biggest issue) growing one crop in one location. Monocultures more efficient to manage, but more susceptible to disease, insects. Factory farming" idea that you standardize everything; mechanized: claims that there is no alternative to ge because climate change means we have to adopt crops to weird weather. We need higher yields for higher pop. But there are always alternatives in cultural/political frame: World already grows enough food, its not distributed properly. Vocab: precautionary principle (), risk, uncertainty, cognitive map, thought-community, conservatism.
