Here we are joined by Jim Thomas, a co-executive director and researcher with the ETC group in Quebec, Canada. Jim has over 25 years international experience tracking the impact of emerging technologies on human rights, biodiversity, equity and food systems, as well as engaging in governance questions around new technologies. Jim explores questions here around assumptions of the human ability to ‘engineer’ the biosphere, how the discussion and narrative around synthetic biology has changed politically and focusing on the bigger picture of gene drives versus specific use cases.
