Nanotechnology : Armed resistance : Nature News & Comment

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  • La montée de l’#écoterrorisme, au #Mexique, contre les #recherches en #nanotechnologie | Nature
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    around 2008, certain groups began to adopt an ’anarcho-primitivist’ perspective. (Locally, they are called primativistas, says Gerardo Herrera Corral.) This philosophy had won little notice until the past few years, but with increasing media reports of looming global climate disaster, some radical green activists have latched on to it. California-based environmental writer Derrick Jensen — whose popular books call for an underground network of ’Deep Green Resistance’ cells — is a highly influential figure in this otherwise leaderless movement, which argues that industrial civilization is responsible for environmental destruction and must be dismantled.

    In their writings, anarcho-primitivist groups often express deep anxiety about a range of advanced research subjects, including genetic engineering, cloning, synthetic biology, geoengineering and neurosciences. (...)

    “I think we are in just the moment for a social explosion,” says Méndez Rojas.

    Taken together, all these developments made Mexican universities, with their burgeoning nanotechnology industry, a target for #violence.

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