Webinar: Climate Crisis, Designer Babies and Pandemics
Such an interesting and wide-ranging discussion with author and activist Bill McKibben, evolutionary biologist Stuart Newman and social theorist Marsha Darling focussing on the common threads between COVID-19, the looming climate crisis, centuries of race-based oppression and proposals for “designer babies”.
You might not think that they are all linked but, in fact, each demonstrates how misguided scientific theory and experimentation can create inequalities and disproportionately harm vulnerable populations. An hour well spent with interesting people, exploring the limitations of ‘techno-utopianism’, how social movements can redirect science and technology toward a just and sustainable future, and how we can preserve our humanity – and diversity – in a genetically engineered age.
Thanks again to the Organic Consumers Association for hosting.
