Title: RE: Critique on Amory Lovins / RMI
Thanks for this clarification Matthew. Perhaps I was too quick in my assertion, but why I felt especially uncomfortable with the way in which Lovins presented (as such interesting) technological innovations, was that it actually obfuscates wider
Hi Michael,
A friend of mine, Carol Thompson, along with Andrew Mushita, recently published
Biopiracy of Biodiversity: Global Exchange as Enclosure through Africa World
Press. It treats GMOs as part of the enclosure imbedded in the Green
Revolution/industrial agriculture; it has very
This is a fascinating exchange and, quite apart from the critiques of Lovins
it is prompting, touches on a subject that Bram correctly identifies, I
believe, as one that warrants very much more careful examination.
Bram refers to technological fetishism. Im not sure if thats quite the
Mike,
There's a relatively good piece on the different perceptions and thus
policy approaches taken by the EU and the US in 'International Studies
Quaterly', 47, 4, by Aseem Prakash and Kelly L. Kollman, ' Biopolitics
in the EU and US: A Race to the Bottom or Convergence to the Top'
Its not
Interesting and thought provoking exchange around Amory. Thanks!
I suggest a couple of things--contact him directly--he tends to be quite good
about responding to email.
You may also want to read/check out William McDonough's work (Cradle to Cradle,
etc)... including his current work to
I think that -- as Bram and others had noted earlier, and as the piece by
Damien White that I recommended on this list argues -- it is important to
distinguish Lovins' technical arguments from his free-market economic
arguments, which I believe have become much more prominent in recent
years.
