Slick magazines ads and research papers bamboozle and convert the unbelievers. The consumption of agricultural chemicals associated with the Green Revolution has been an ecological and economic disaster for peasants, and increased use of pesticides and herbicides on crops engineered for tolerance will spell total doom. We must understand the right to life of other people, other ideologies and methods, and go beyond the market mechanisms of economics, cost benefit, and compensation. With double-speak are associated double standards, one for citizens and one for corporations, one for corporate responsibility and one for corporate profits. The flow of capital resources has mirrored the flow of genetic resources.
Imperialism intrudes physically, geographically.
But capitalism infiltrates psychologically, into the mind and culture, entrenching itself and constantly seeking new inroads. Old values and standards of humanity disappear as the virulence eats away and establishes itself, first to existence, then prominence, then despotism. People are being reduced to experimental objects, deprived of all rights to choose what is done to their lives, their bodies, their environments. India is an example ofa country where dramatic shifts in science and technology policy are taking place which give full freedom to the governments and corporations of industrialized countries to treat a vast subcontinent as a laboratory and its people as human guinea pigs for testing and marketing genetically engineered organisms. But disasters like Bhopal should challenge that, reminding us that our lifestyles determine other people's life chances.