An Integral Economy: State Coherence and Dissonance: Part 3 of 3. You have to give them credit for creativity, nefarious though it may be. When Monsanto realized it was riding glyphosate (more commonly known as the weedkiller, RoundUp®) into a patent sunset, it changed the game. Rather than suffering the fate of pharmaceutical companies who, at the end of a patented drug watch generics gobble up market-share, Monsanto decided to out-fox the social contract of ‘acceptable’ market incentives for effective monopolies. Using their quasi-monopoly on seed which had been genetically modified to resist RoundUp®, they began entering into contracts with growers which prevented farms from storing or replanting seed. In addition, under perpetual contracts, they rendered pollination by bees, wind or any other natural cause a crime and, in so doing, enslaved farmers in industrialized and marginalized countries alike.
The most common form of State Dissonance is money. Say I have a gold mine. Now remember, this ‘efficiency’ came from somewhere. Ancient Chinese Canals Can’t Stop Desertification. TURPAN - Kalik is seated next to his father in the small courtyard of an old, traditional Uyghur house made of ochre-colored bricks. “We are able to produce 500 kilos of grapes per day,” he boasts. Such production levels are something of a miracle, considering the climatic conditions that have hit Turpan, an oasis located in the middle of the desert in the northwest Xinjian region. The soil is dry and often sandy, and it receives no more than 20 millimeters of rain per year. The young man is aware that this production is necessary for the survival of his family, whose property is situated just a few steps from the canal that was dug up four centuries ago. It is one of the arteries of the karez, an irrigation system dating back more than two millennia, and which served as a lifeline for this oasis, a former stopover for the caravans on the ancient Silk Road.
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