RE: "against everything"

Hal Hamilton (hhamilton@centerss.org)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:03:26 -0500

Hi to you, Samuel old buddy-May I humbly suggest that you
proved my point. The Kimball article you quote suggests
that "nation-states follow the example of the European
Parliament and reject the patenting of life." Of course
nations don't do anything unless their constituents
(voters, companies, or whatever) demand that they do it.
That's why I don't ever trumpet government without
prefacing government with "democratically accountable."
It's gotten too fashionable these days to assume that
government is inherently evil. On the other hand, you are
right to imply that all decisions should be made at the
most local level possible. I also agree with you and
Daly that growth equals global suicide. Development must be
constrained within limits determined by the natural world.
Hal

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-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Kaymen [SMTP:kaymen@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 12:24 PM
To: Hal Hamilton; Sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: "against everything"

<< File: ATT00001.htm >> Hi Hal, I read with interest your
comments and would like to offer two
things:
1. " .... democratically accountable government...." is NOT
the ONLY
thing that can restrain market forces for the public good.
May I suggest
that the "PUBLIC " is an even more powerful force that has
the capacity
to more than restrain but in fact determine the market.
2. I would like to recommend a book to you and all out
fellow Saneters:
The Case AGAINST the Global Economy and FOR a Turn Toward
the Lccal
Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith
Sierra Club Books~San Francisco
ISBN 0-87156-865-9
I particularly want to call your attention to:
a) Chapter 11 BIOCOLOCIZATION
The patenting of Life and the Blobal Market in Body Parts
by Andrew
Kimball, Founder and President of the International Center
for
Technology Assessment
His conclusion in brief is .."a new Biodemocracy is
required..."
"Biodemocracy requires that nation-states follow the
example of the
European Parliament and reject the patenting of life in all
forms. It
also requires governments and transnational corporations to
stop
biocolonizing the earth's genetic resources." Do you think
the European
Parliament did this on their own, nay I say the "PUBLIC"
had a decisive
role!!!!!!!!
b) Also may I suggest that your review Chapter 16
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH?
NO THANK YOU. by Herman E. Daly, former Senior economist in
the
Environmental Department of the World Bank. He presents in
brief a short
case for rethinking the results of the assumntions of
"Market Forces",
which state that we can grow ourselves out of the mess we
are in.
All my best....................Samuel Kaymen

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