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Editor’s note: David Fleming’s former colleague Lawrence Woodward offers the following comment: Since David’s death in 2010 there has been a rapid development of gene technology with See, e.g., Michael Eckerstorfer, Marianne Miklau and Helmut Gaugitsch “New Plant Breeding Techniques and Risks Associated with their Application”, Environment Agency Austria, 2014; Sarah Z. Agapito-Tenfen and Odd-Gunnar Wikmark, “Current status of emerging technologies for plant breeding: Biosafety and knowledge gaps of site directed nucleases and oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis”, GenØk, January 2015; “GMO lobby pushes new gene-silencing GMOs in spite of safety risks”, GM Watch, 18 August 2015. approaches often termed “gene editing”, including site-directed nuclease techniques, oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis techniques and RNA interference. There is much debate as to whether these fall within the current regulatory definitions of GMOs, and if not whether those definitions should be expanded or whether these approaches should be regulated at all.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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