Book contents
- Creating Human Nature
- Creating Human Nature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Political Bioethics of Regulating Genetic Engineering
- Part II The Political Dimensions of Engineering Intelligence
- Part III Inequality as an Unintended Consequence Locally and as a Planetary Phenomenon
- 8 A Human Right to Freedom from Genetic Disability
- 9 Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Biologically Influenced Social Inequalities
- 10 Genetic Engineering as a Technology of the Anthropocene
- Coda
- References
- Index
10 - Genetic Engineering as a Technology of the Anthropocene
from Part III - Inequality as an Unintended Consequence Locally and as a Planetary Phenomenon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- Creating Human Nature
- Creating Human Nature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Political Bioethics of Regulating Genetic Engineering
- Part II The Political Dimensions of Engineering Intelligence
- Part III Inequality as an Unintended Consequence Locally and as a Planetary Phenomenon
- 8 A Human Right to Freedom from Genetic Disability
- 9 Deploying Epigenetics to Identify Biologically Influenced Social Inequalities
- 10 Genetic Engineering as a Technology of the Anthropocene
- Coda
- References
- Index
Summary
The term Anthropocene stands for a theory that humankind has entered its own epoch, the geological Age of Humankind.1 As of this epoch, the planet bears – and will bear for millennia and perhaps even millions of years to come – a tectonic human impact on its ecosystems and geology, from the lithosphere to the ecosphere. The theory frames environmental nature as vulnerable, capable of violation, and under siege. It limns humankind in terms of a will to control everything, itself included, thereby fueling technological exuberance, economic rapacity, and a mindless assault on the planetary environment – including, in the form of human genetic engineering, our own species.
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- Creating Human NatureThe Political Challenges of Genetic Engineering, pp. 202 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022