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This three-part book 'pulls back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.' Vandana Shiva, Founder, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology 'Geopiracy' analyses how Northern governments and corporations are cynically using growing concerns about the ecological and climate crisis to propose geoengineering 'quick fixes'. These threaten to wreak havoc on ecosystems, with disastrous impacts on the people of the global South. As calls for a 'greener' economy mount and oil prices escalate, corporations are seeking to switch from oil-based to plant-based energy. 'The New Biomassters' exposes how a biomass economy based on using gene technologies to reprogramme living organisms to behave as microbial factories will facilitate the liquidation of ecosystems. This constitutes a devastating assault of the peoples and cultures of the South, accelerating the wave of land grabs that are becoming common in Africa, Asia and Latin America. 'Capturing Climate Genes' shows how the worlds largest agribusiness companies including Monsanto, BASF, Dupont and Syngenta are pouring billions of dollars into, and claiming patents on, what are claimed to be 'climate-ready crops'. Far from helping farmers adjust to a warming world - something peasant farmers already know how to manage - these crops will allow industrial agriculture to expand plantation monocultures into lands currently cultivated by poor peasant farmers. These crops are not a solution to growing hunger, they will feed only the gluttony of corporate shareholders for profits.

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'These three groundbreaking reports pull back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.' Vandana Shiva, environmentalist and founder of Diverse Women for Diversity Whenever I need to know how to interpret the interface of technology, environment, society and political economy, there is simply nowhere else to turn but the ETC Group. This book reflects why they are so valued. Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa This crucial book reveals that if we aren't careful, the ecological crisis could turn into a Disaster Capitalism bonanza. Indispensable research for those with their eyes wide open. Naomi Klein, author The Shock Doctrine Earth Grab explores three crucial issues, which will come to dominate environmental and human rights debates in the coming years. It is an essential resource for anyone trying to keep up with the times. George Monbiot, journalist and author Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning Earth Grab warns of the immoral, unacceptable and barefaced piracy and manipulation being unleashed on the planet by peddlers of dangerous techno fixes driven by the creed of profit and planetary colonialism. A warning we ignore at our peril. Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environment Rights Action, and Chair of Friends of the Earth International This book is a tour de force. The authors, who are among the most competent experts, present hard, cutting-edge, scientific research in accessible language, without over-simplifying the issues. They efficiently dismantle the rhetoric of the dominant powers, who view science as being independent of social systems. The authors demonstrate that in reality these research programmes are undertaken under the control of agencies that are fully devoted to the interests of monopoly capital. Their research is conceived to grow super-profits, at the cost of destroying mother Earth and of human dignity and survival. Samir Amin, economist and Director of Forum du Tiers Monde (Third World Forum), Dakar, Senegal

'These three groundbreaking reports pull back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.' Vandana Shiva

"'These three groundbreaking reports pull back the curtain on disturbing technological and corporate trends that are already reshaping our world and that will become crucial battlegrounds for civil society in the years ahead.' Vandana Shiva, environmentalist and founder of Diverse Women for Diversity ""Whenever I need to know how to interpret the interface of technology, environment, society and political economy, there is simply nowhere else to turn but the ETC Group. This book reflects why they are so valued."" Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa ""This crucial book reveals that if we aren't careful, the ecological crisis could turn into a Disaster Capitalism bonanza. Indispensable research for those with their eyes wide open."" Naomi Klein, author ""The Shock Doctrine"" ""Earth Grab explores three crucial issues, which will come to dominate environmental and human rights debates in the coming years. It is an essential resource for anyone trying to keep up with the times."" George Monbiot, journalist and author ""Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning"" ""Earth Grab warns of the immoral, unacceptable and barefaced piracy and manipulation being unleashed on the planet by peddlers of dangerous techno fixes driven by the creed of profit and planetary colonialism. A warning we ignore at our peril."" Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of Environment Rights Action, and Chair of Friends of the Earth International ""This book is a tour de force. The authors, who are among the most competent experts, present hard, cutting-edge, scientific research in accessible language, without over-simplifying the issues. They efficiently dismantle the rhetoric of the dominant powers, who view science as being independent of social systems. The authors demonstrate that in reality these research programmes are undertaken under the control of agencies that are fully devoted to the interests of monopoly capital. Their research is conceived to grow super-profits, at the cost of destroying mother Earth and of human dignity and survival."" Samir Amin, economist and Director of Forum du Tiers Monde (Third World Forum), Dakar, Senegal"

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ETC Group are the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration. They are dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. Diana Bronson, Hope Shand and Jim Thomas are researchers with ETC Group.

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