Biotechnology and the environment: What is at risk?

Mark Sagoff

Agriculture and Human Values, 1988, vol. 5, issue 3, 26-35

Abstract: This paper argues that the new biotechnologies will affect the natural environment primarily in two ways: by bringing relatively “wild” areas, such as forests and estuaries, under domestication, and by forcing areas now domesticated, such as farms, out of production, because of surpluses. The problem of the safety of biotechnology—the risk of some inadvertent side-effect—seems almost trivial in relation to the social and economic implications of these intentional uses. The paper proposes that we should be more concerned about the successful uses of biotechnology than about the possible mishaps or failures. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

Date: 1988
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