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Jim Thomas

Jim Thomas is Programme Director of ETC Group: etc.group.org

Articles by Jim Thomas

agriculture robots
How corporate giants are automating the farm
Precision agriculture is where it’s at – according to the corporate giants. Jim Thomas inspects their plans.
The Disrupted
Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.
Hands off our mother!
Unproven scientific ‘fixes’ for global warming are a major threat to the planet
Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on biomass. Not a great idea, reasons *Jim Thomas*.
Technofixes: climate solution or corporate scam?
Science is coming up with ever more extraordinary proposals for combating climate change, from laying white plastic over deserts...
Whatever happened to cotton?
*Jim Thomas* looks back from 2035.

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