The role of the state should be to support the process. The role of public institutions, parliaments, and executive branches should be to listen to the process. This forces the conflicting bodies to participate if they want to have an impact on policy. Institutionalized, not sporadic, participatory technology assessment that is well-connected to public decisionmaking, would be healthy for both sides of the agriculture technology debate. Environmentalists will become better acquainted with technology, while the consistent insertion of environmental consciousness into the design phase of future technologies could be one of the most effective ways of preventing ecological damage in the first place.
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